Tag Archives: Sara Bareilles

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Song of the Day #6,569: ‘Morningside’ – Sara Bareilles

Continuing my list of best debut albums (with quite a few caveats)…

Sara Bareilles – Little Voice (2007)

This selection is a bit of a cheat, but it’s also one of the reasons I wanted to do this theme week in the first place, so I’m keeping it in.

Funnily enough, I wrote about the debut album theme idea more than five years ago when a song from Sara Bareilles’ Little Voice popped up on Random Weekends. But then I discovered Bareilles had independently released a record called Careful Confessions three years earlier.

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Song of the Day #4,601: ‘Many the Miles’ – Sara Bareilles

When today’s song popped up as my Random Weekend selection, my first thought was to write about Sara Bareilles’ Little Voice as a great debut album. I’ve been meaning to do a series of posts on my favorite debuts, and this one would certainly make the cut.

But when I called up Bareilles’ discography, I learned that while 2007’s Little Voice was the singer-songwriter’s major label debut, it is actually her second album.

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Song of the Day #4,589: ‘Orpheus’ – Sara Bareilles

Today’s track was chosen as a favorite by Madison. ‘Orpheus’ appears on Sara Bareilles’ 2019 Amidst the Chaos and features a lyric that gave the album its title.

Amidst the Chaos was inspired by the 2016 election and its aftermath, and this song is an aching plea for optimism and love in the face of all that Trumpian ugliness. It feels great to feature ‘Orpheus’ a week after Trump slithered away, smaller than ever, and the country celebrated the inspiring inauguration of President Biden.

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Song of the Day #3,719: ‘Say You’re Sorry’ – Sara Bareilles

Sara Bareilles is so good I feel a little guilty for not listening to her more.

The truth is I hear her songs quite a bit, especially tracks from her 2007 debut Little Voice, because my daughter plays the hell out of them on long drives. But Bareilles’ second album, 2010’s Kaleidoscope Heart, is very good as well and I never play that one. And I’m ashamed to say I didn’t even know she had a third album, 2013’s The Blessed Unrest, which was nominated for an Album of the Year Grammy (it lost to Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories).

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