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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Big Machine Records
Salesrank: 3597
Released: October 24, 2006 |
| Our Price: $12.27 |
| Used Price: $6.58 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Taylor Swift Track Listing:
1. Tim McGraw
2. Picture to Burn
3. Teardrops on My Guitar
4. A Place in This World
5. Cold As You
6. The Outside
7. Tied Together With a Smile
8. Stay Beautiful
9. Should've Said No
10. Mary's Song (Oh My My My)
11. Our Song
Editorial Review:
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Description of Taylor Swift:
Three years ago, a 13-year old Taylor Swift set out to be a star and moved from Reading, Pennsylvania, to Nashville. By 14, she had a publishing deal, and by 15, a recording contract. In these days of Bianca Ryan (and before her, Tanya Tucker and LeAnn Rimes), many are called, but few are chosen. Swift, it appears, is one of the chosen ones. Her vocal talent is modest, though sweetly affecting, her style seemingly influenced by the radio hits of early Sheryl Crow and Michelle Branch, and perhaps Cyndi Thomson. And at times, her youthfulness shows--she encoded messages in the lyrics of her CD booklet, starting with the name of the boy who cheated on her from "Should've Said No" (the album's strongest offering). But in writing or co-writing all 11 songs on this debut, Swift demonstrates remarkable maturity, particularly in crafting a hooky, radio-ready chorus. Though she sounds ridiculous looking back from the perspective of an 87-year old woman on "Mary's Song," to her credit she mostly writes about what she knows--unrequited high-school crushes ("Teardrops on My Guitar"), teenage angst ("Tied Together with a Smile"), and complete immersion in starry-eyed romance (her breakout hit "Tim McGraw"). Swift has such wistful charm and tunefulness that only a curmudgeon could dismiss her, and in fact, more than 60,000 fans lined up to grab this CD the first month of release. No wonder Rascal Flatts and George Strait added her to their tours. Look out, Carrie Underwood--there's a new kid in town. --Alanna Nash
Taylor Swift Reviews:
Taylor is not true country, but who said it had to be? 
2008-07-21 - I will admit, Taylor caught my eye before she caught my ear. I was just getting into country music at the time I heard her first popular song "Tim Mcgraw". I liked it alot, but as other reviewers stated, this isn't real country by any means. I dont think its a reason to knock her down. If you took out the banjo and the fiddle out of her songs you would get your typical singer song writer music(which they eventually did, to make her music more pop friendly (bad news in my books)).
This is a little off topic part of my review, but maybe someone can answer my question. I am not so sure why everyone is obsessed with the fact that country artists write their own songs. In rock music, thats the only way to go, so when I made the leap from rock to country, all I heard was, SHE WRITES HER OWN SONGS (this applies to the other country artists too) Very good indeed, but this is suppose to be the norm (not knocking on song writers who don't preform by any means). I do realize she is young, but being young or old shouldnt hinder your means of writing songs, and it's not like the songs are crazy sophisticated or difficult.
The songs are very simple, but catchy. She isn't a phenominal singer or guitar player, but she uses both very effectively in her songs. There isn't one bad song on this album. Every song has a strong melody. Lyrically, the songs are about high school romance, which can get a little over played, but I don't consider lyrics to be the most important aspect of music. My favorite songs on the albums are not the popular ones on the radio, so if that's all you've heard of her, and you liked what you heard, expect to hear better songs on the album. This is not country, it just incoporates some country flavored instruments.
Taylor Swift
2008-06-11 - Taylor is a very talented young girl. I hope she doesn't miss out on things because of her career. Her songs are very youthful and fun.
I may be late at getting this album BUT 
2008-04-28 - I think Taylor Swift is one of those likeable artists who will stay around for a while til shes in her 30's or 40's. I like her much better than the overhyped Carrie Underwood. While her voice may not be as impressive as Underwood, she does have good songwriting ability. I first heard of her when I heard "Tim McGraw" on froggy here in Pittsburgh. It was so good and original! I was waiting to hear more from this new talented country artist. Then I heard the 2007 single "Teardrops On My Guitar." It was a nice surprsie! I decided to take a listen for the rest of this album. The rest wasn't bad either. If you like the radio singles then there's more to offer besides that. My favorite song is "Picture To Burn." I wish she would have won Best New Artist for the Grammy's instead of the overrated Amy Winehouse and I'm sure I'm not the only one! I highly reccomend this to country and non-country fans alike!
Nashville...shame, shame. 
2008-04-19 - How in the world? How, how how? How did this girl get a record deal? If she stood before Simon Cowell, he would rip her apart. She can NOT sing. Boring, typical pop songs to the voice of an average young girl. That's all this "music" is.
Taylor Swift
2008-04-14 - HOW I CAME TO KNOW ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT?
THE BEGINNING
It's all thanks to the deejays at Fly Fm who kept playing her song Teardrops On My Guitar every single day. No kidding! I felt in love with that song the moment I first heard it. That prompted me to find out who is this Taylor Swift.
I googled her and I was led to her official site and her MySpace page.
THE MISSION
I then went on a mission to find her album which was released in the US in 2006. That mission was a tedious task and I found out something about our record stores, Tower Records, Speedy, CD Rama, MPH/Border's music section and Rock Corner do not have her album in stock. The worst part was, they have no idea who Taylor Swift is. I would get responses such as Taylor who? How do you spell it? T-A-I-L-...No it's T-A-Y-L-O-R. Swift as in Suzuki Swift. How do you spell that? Yeah we are living in a generation that doesn't read much.
I found it strange that all of our local stores do not have her CD. Was it because it was release in 2006 and was out of print? I doubt it. I didn't bother checking other record stores in other states because if two fairly big cities do not have the album, how likely it is for them to have it in their store. Oh before I forget, I'm residing in a country called Malaysia.
THE ALTERNATIVE
So I had no choice but to purchase it through Amazon. Here's the amazing part. I ordered the CD knowing only one song. That's pretty risky. But that's me. If I like a certain song, I'd go all out to get the entire album. Original disc only. The 30 seconds preview of each song on Amazon did not help either as it doesn't determine whether I'm into that particular song or not. But I love Teardrops so it doesn't matter if the rest of the songs suck.
So did it sucks? Hell No! I absolutely love every one of them. Taylor's CD is the second most expensive CD that I've purchased. The first was The Corrs In Blue album. Same story.
THE ALBUM
Taylor's debut album is a mixture of Pop and Contemporary Country music. For me to choose a favorite is pretty tough as all of the tracks are just excellent especially Teardrops, Cold As You and A Place In This World.
THE SINGER
I love singers who write their own songs. Taylor Swift is no exception. She wrote 3 out of the 11 songs. The rest of it she co-wrote it with her dearest friend and her song writing soul mate Liz Rose and one song with Robert Ellis Orral and Angelo.
HER VOICE
Her own unique voice is simply mesmerizing. It's like walking on a clouded bed. That's how I would describe it.
This is one of the best album I've recently purchased. I've absolutely no regrets whatsoever.
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Amazon Rocks!!! Why?
It's so easy to order and they are extremely efficient. Keep it up.
