Jill Sobule and Lloyd Cole during a concert in Seattle Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1961 in Denver, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the controversial 1995 song "I Kissed a Girl", and for "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the hit 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and sincere emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman. But unlike those artists, Sobule's perspective is decidedly feminine. Autobiographical elements, including Sobule's adolescent battles with anorexia and depression, frequently occur in Sobule's writing. An appreciable percentage of her work is also dedicated to detailed accounts of both her own fictional female creations and such troubled but celebrated women as Joey Heatherton and Mary Kay Letourneau, whose stories are used to make ironic though compassionate comments about fame and celebrity. Image File history File links Lcjill. ...
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Nickname: Location of Denver in Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Colorado City-County Denver (coextensive) Founded [1] November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Government - Type Strong Mayor/Weak Council - Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area [1] - City & County 154. ...
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Clueless is a 1995 comedy film, loosely based on Emma by Jane Austen, written and directed by Amy Heckerling and produced by Scott Rudin. ...
Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 â September 7, 2003) was an American rock and roll musician and songwriter. ...
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History
Sobule's debut album Things Here Are Different was released in 1990. Though produced by pop legend Todd Rundgren, the album failed to sell, and it was five years before Sobule landed another recording contract, as described below. Things Here Are Different is the first album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1990. ...
Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, USA), is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. ...
To date she has released four more major-label albums of original songs, three EPs, an independently distributed acoustic record and a greatest hits compilation album. Sobule's output also includes original songs available only via the internet, the Christmas novelty track "Merry Christmas from the Family" and a version of the late Warren Zevon's "Don't Let Us Get Sick" included on a posthumous tribute album dedicated to songs written by her close friend and one-time labelmate. Though Sobule remains more of an underground artist, playing for fans across the United States in smaller, more personal settings, her albums are frequently critically acclaimed and her influential music industry fans include Rundgren, Tom Morello, Steve Earle and Eagles member Don Henley, who contributed a promotional quote to the ad campaign for Sobule's fourth album, Pink Pearl. // Extended play (EP) is the name typically given to vinyl records or CDs which contain more than one single but are too short to qualify as albums. ...
A greatest hits album (sometimes referred to as a best of album) is a compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular music artist or band. ...
Thomas Baptist Morello or Tom Morello (born May 30, 1964) is an American guitarist who played in Rage Against the Machine. ...
Steve Earle (born Stephen Fain Earle January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, well known for his rock and country music, as well as for his political views. ...
Eagles are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. ...
Donald Hugh Don Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) is an American rock musician who is the drummer and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the band the Eagles. ...
Pink Pearl is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2000. ...
The 1995 album Jill Sobule established Sobule as part of a short-lived but fruitful mid-90s movement of female singer-songwriters that included such artists as Lisa Loeb, Juliana Hatfield and Alanis Morissette. The album contains Sobule's most well-known composition "I Kissed a Girl", a pithy story-song about a lesbian flirtation between two suburban girlfriends which became an unlikely radio success thanks in part to a comedic music video featuring beefcake male model Fabio as the heterosexual rival for Sobule's affections. The somewhat slyer "Supermodel" (sample lyric: "I didn't eat yesterday... and I'm not gonna eat today... and I'm not gonna eat tomorrow... 'Cause I'm gonna be a supermodel") managed to both send up and celebrate American teenage lifestyles, and became the standout track in 1995's hit teen comedy film Clueless. Jill Sobule is the second album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1995. ...
Lisa Anne Loeb (born 11 March 1968) is an American singer-songwriter and reality television star. ...
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Alanis Nadine Morissette (born in Ottawa, 1 June 1974) is a Canadian and naturalized[1] American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. ...
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Fabio may refer to many different people: Fabio is an Italian male model . ...
Clueless is a 1995 comedy film, loosely based on Emma by Jane Austen, written and directed by Amy Heckerling and produced by Scott Rudin. ...
If Jill Sobule established Sobule as a commercial comer, her third album set what has so far been the pattern for the rest of her career. 1997's Happy Town featured Sobule's most elaborate pop productions to date and contains songs about reactionary Christianity ("Soldiers of Christ"), the negative impact of anti-depressant medication on the libido ("Happy Town") and what is either the only track ever recorded that uses Anne Frank's enforced Nazi-era hibernation as the metaphor for a love song or the only song about Anne Frank that couches her life and death in the terms of a tussle over loyalty between two lovers ("Attic"). Idiosyncratic and poetic, Happy Town was embraced by record reviewers but sold poorly, solidifying Sobule's critical reputation while stalling her commercial momentum. Jill Sobule is the second album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1995. ...
Happy Town is the third album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1997. ...
Happy Town is the third album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1997. ...
The 2000 record Pink Pearl may be Sobule's most characteristic set. Anchored by the female character studies "Lucy at the Gym" (about an anorexic exercise addict), "Claire" (about an aging lesbian aviatrix succumbing to Alzheimer's disease) and "Mary Kay" (about Letourneau, the notorious real-life schoolteacher who became impregnated and imprisoned because of an affair with a 13-year-old male student), Pink Pearl also contains some of Sobule's most directly confessional songwriting, especially the atheist's prayer "Somewhere in New Mexico" and the insomniac's lullaby "Rock Me To Sleep." Pink Pearl is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2000. ...
Pink Pearl is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2000. ...
Sobule's most recent full-length studio album is 2004's Underdog Victorious, a tuneful, coherent and entirely representative set that stands comfortably beside her previous two records, marking her as an essentially fully-formed creative voice. Here Sobule comments on her own unconventional showbusiness career (the bittersweet "Freshman") as well as the tragicomic arc of go-go dancing 60s icon Joey Heatherton ("Joey") alongside whimsical autobiographical songs ("Cinnamon Park" and "Strawberry Gloss") and more politicized tracks dealing with issues related to adolescent homosexuality ("Underdog Victorious" and the hilarious "Under the Disco Ball") and even sexual slavery ("Tel Aviv," sung in the voice of a girl forced into prostitution after going overseas for a waitressing job "in the Promised Land.") Sobule's unique niche as one of the more empathetic satirists working in popular song is encapsulated by her "tribute" to Heatherton, which gets a lot of comedic mileage out of the garish shallowness of Heatherton's story but with a chorus that finds Sobule singing "All she ever wanted was your love and affection/Isn't that the same thing that we all want?" before ending with the words "You can sleep at my house if you want to, Joey." Underdog Victorious is the fifth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2004. ...
Go-Go dancers were originally 1960s-era miniskirted clubgoers, dancing at clubs such as the Whisky a Go Go (one of the first to have dancers in elevated cages), wearing go-go boots. ...
Long Island, New York-born Joey Heatherton was christened Davenie Johanna Heatherton in 1944. ...
Music Sobule uses both satire and personal experience to sing about a range of issues, including sexuality, depression, war, abandonment, and greed. According to her website bio, a central preoccupation of her work is the classic one: "Love found, love lost, love wished for and love taken away." Many of her songs incorporate humor into their narrative. She often creates detailed character sketches, especially of women. Generally, her songs are unconventionally folk-like, using lounge music percussion flourishes and retro horn charts not usually found in tracks recorded by mainstream artists. Occasionally her arrangements intentionally mimic works by other performers, most noticeably on "Rainy Day Parade" from 2000's Pink Pearl, which quotes TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme to lend ironic triumphalism to a song about a woman going back on anti-depressant medication, and "Cinnamon Park" from the 2004 album Underdog Victorious, which paraphrases portions of the 1972 single "Saturday in the Park" by the band Chicago. Her rhythmic sensibility at times recalls cocktail music deity Esquivel, and her harmony parts can resemble the Beatles on some of her more elaborate album tracks -- possibly a partial legacy of her early recording efforts with Nazz founder and avowed Beatlemaniac Todd Rundgren. American folk music, also known as Americana, is a broad category of music including Native American music, Bluegrass, country music, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Tejano and Cajun. ...
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Pink Pearl is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2000. ...
Mary Tyler Moore is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ...
Underdog Victorious is the fifth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2004. ...
Saturday in the Park is a song composed for the group Chicago by singer/keyboardist Robert Lamm. ...
Chicago is a pop-rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. ...
Juan GarcÃa Esquivel (January 20, 1918 â January 3, 2002) often known as simply Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and film composer. ...
The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ...
The Nazz was an early psychedelic garage rock band from the 1960s. ...
Miscellany
Jill Sobule performing at D5 In the late 90s, Sobule toured with Richard Barone as "The Richard & Jill Show." Together they wrote "Bitter" from Happy Town, "Rock Me To Sleep" from Pink Pearl, "Big Shoes" from I Never Learned To Swim, and "Waiting For The Train" from Barone's Clouds Over Eden album. They also appeared together in the underground film, Next Year In Jerusalem, which features another of their compositions, "Everybody's Queer." Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 389 Ã 600 pixelsFull resolution (1764 Ã 2720 pixel, file size: 2. ...
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Richard Barone is a musician, formerly the vocalist and leader in the New Jersey band The Bongos. ...
Happy Town is the third album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1997. ...
Pink Pearl is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2000. ...
Richard Barone is a musician, formerly the vocalist and leader in the New Jersey band The Bongos. ...
In 2000, Sobule joined Lloyd Cole's short-lived band The Negatives. Lloyd Cole with his old band during a reunion concert in London, October 2004 Lloyd Cole (born January 31, 1961) is an English singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989 and for his subsequent solo work. ...
Sobule was personally selected by Eagle Don Henley to open for him on his solo tour in the year 2000. In late 2003, Sobule joined the "Tell Us the Truth" tour, an anti-war, anti-Bush administration collaboration with Billy Bragg, Tom Morello (as The Nightwatchman), Mike Mills, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Earle, and Boots Riley. Stephen William Bragg (born December 20, 1957), known as Billy Bragg, is an English musician renowned for his blend of folk, punk-rock, and protest music, and his poetic lyrics dealing with political as well as romantic themes. ...
Thomas Baptist Morello or Tom Morello (born May 30, 1964) is an American guitarist who played in Rage Against the Machine. ...
Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958 in Orange County, California) is the bass player of the band R.E.M. As a young boy, he moved with his family to Macon, Georgia in the early 60s. ...
Janeane Garofalo Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964 in Newton, New Jersey), is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer and former co-host on Air America Radios The Majority Report. ...
Steve Earle (born Stephen Fain Earle January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, well known for his rock and country music, as well as for his political views. ...
Party Musics controversial album cover The Coup is the name of a hip-hop group. ...
In 2004, she played one of the five leads in the film Mind The Gap. Mind The Gap is a multi-story 2004 film written & directed by Eric Schaeffer. ...
In 2005, Sobule contributed music to Unfabulous, a Nickelodeon TV series about a 13-year-old girl who writes songs about her life. Two Sobule compositions appear on Unfabulous and More: Emma Roberts, the debut album from series star Emma Roberts: a cover of "Mexican Wrestler" from Sobule's 2000 LP Pink Pearl and "Punch Rocker," written by Sobule for Roberts' Unfabulous character Addie Singer to "compose" on the program. Unfabulous is an American childrens television series on Nickelodeon about an unfabulous Junior high school student, played by Emma Roberts. ...
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Emma Rose Roberts (born February 10, 1991) is an American actress, the daughter of actor Eric Roberts and the niece of actress Julia Roberts. ...
In 2006, Sobule met Julia Sweeney, the actress, writer and comedienne, and started performing the "Jill and Julia Show", a compilation of songs and stories. They performed at the James Randi Educational Foundation meeting in Las Vegas on January 19, 2007. Julia Sweeney (born October 10, 1959 in Spokane, Washington) is an American actress and comedian who lives in Hollywood, California. ...
The James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) is a Fort Lauderdale, Florida non-profit organization founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi. ...
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Sobule toured twice with the late Warren Zevon, whose penchant for sardonic storytelling she shares. The two artists frequently accompanied one another during each other's sets, and Zevon was known on multiple occasions to take the lead vocal on Sobule's "I Kissed a Girl." Sobule has said that part of their bond came from the fact that she, like Zevon, was best known for a single fluke hit (Zevon's being "Werewolves of London"). Werewolves of London is a song composed by LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, and Warren Zevon and performed by Zevon. ...
In recent public appearances, Sobule has expressed interest in compiling a live album, in addition to releasing a new studio disc. On a blog from her myspace account, Sobule stated she is recording two new albums, one with underground string quartet Ethel. Ethel may refer to: Ethel, Missouri Ethel, Mississippi Ethel Mertz, fictional character played by Vivian Vance in the television show I Love Lucy Ethel Barrymore, stage and screen actress who the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1944 film None but the Lonely Heart. ...
Discography Studio albums Things Here Are Different is the first album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1990. ...
See also: 1989 in music, 1990 in British music, other events of 1990, 1991 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // January 21 - MTVs Unplugged premieres on cable television with musical guest, Squeeze February 6 - Billy Idol is involved in a serious motorcycle accident...
Jill Sobule is the second album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1995. ...
See also: 1995 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1995 Record labels established in 1995 1990s in music. ...
Happy Town is the third album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 1997. ...
See also: 1996 in music, other events of 1997, 1998 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 9 - David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert (the day after his birthday) at Madison Square Garden, with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic...
Pink Pearl is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2000. ...
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The Folk Years 2003-2003 is an album by Jill Sobule, released independantly in 2004. ...
See also: 2004 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2004 Record labels established in 2004 2000s in music. ...
Underdog Victorious is the fifth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2004. ...
See also: 2004 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 2004 Record labels established in 2004 2000s in music. ...
// January George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queens New Year Honours List. ...
Compilations - I Never Learned To Swim: Jill Sobule 1990-2000 (2001) (Best of Compilation)
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EPs Its the Thought That Counts is an EP released independently in 2001 by Jill Sobule. ...
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This independant EP was made available through Jill Sobules official website. ...
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Singles - 1990: "Too Cool to Fall in Love"
- 1990: "Living Color"
- 1995: "I Kissed a Girl"
- 1996: "Good Person Inside" (Radio Version)
- 1996: "Supermodel" (Radio Remix)
- 1997: "Bitter" (PG-13 Edit)
- 1997: "When My Ship Comes In" (Edit)
- 2000: "One of These Days" (Radio Version)
- 2000: "Rainy Day Parade"
- 2001: "Stoned Soul Picnic"
- 2004: "Cinnamon Park" (PG Edit)
Soundtrack appearances Clueless is a 1995 comedy film, loosely based on Emma by Jane Austen, written and directed by Amy Heckerling and produced by Scott Rudin. ...
The Truth About Cats & Dogs is a 1996 American film, a romantic comedy starring Uma Thurman, Janeane Garofalo, Ben Chaplin, and Jamie Foxx. ...
Grace of My Heart is a 1996 film from writer-director Allison Anders. ...
Harriet the Spy is a novel for children by Louise Fitzhugh, published in 1964. ...
Mystery Men is a 1999 comedy film directed by TV commercial director Kinka Usher. ...
A Mind the gap sign in the tube station at Charing Cross, London. ...
Dirty Love is a 2005 film, written by and starring Jenny McCarthy and directed by John Mallory Asher. ...
Various artist compilations - 1992: "Too Cool to Fall in Love" from An Elpee's Worth of Productions
- 1995: "The Jig Is Up" from Grooves: Volume 8
- 1995: "Good Person Inside" and "The Man in the Boat" from Spew
- 1995: "Merry Christmas from the Family" from You Sleigh Me
- 1997: "Stoned Soul Picnic" from Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro
- 1997: "I Will Survive" from In Their Own Words and from Hard Rock Live
- 1998: "Saddest Day of the Year" from A Christmas to Remember
- 1999: "Just a Little Lovin'" from Forever Dusty
- 1999: "Sunrise, Sunset" from Knitting on the Roof
- 2000: "Rainy Day Parade" from New Talent Spotlight Volume 2
- 2000: "I Kissed a Girl" from K-TEL Pop Alternative
- 2004: "Don't Let Us Get Sick" from Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon
B-sides - 1995: Queen of Spades (from the Supermodel single)
- 1997: Loveless Motel (from the Bitter single, later included on album Pink Pearl)
- 2000: Lucy at the Gym (from the When My Ship Comes In single, later included on album Pink Pearl)
- 2004: Almost Fell (Bonus track on the Borders edition of Underdog Victorious)
Pink Pearl is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2000. ...
Pink Pearl is the fourth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2000. ...
Underdog Victorious is the fifth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2004. ...
Unreleased - 2000: "Youthful Indiscretions"
- 2003: "Nothing I Can Do" (from the off-Broadway production Prozac and the Platypus)
- 2004: "Perry St." (from the Underdog Victorious recording sessions)
- 2004: "Let's Get Back Together" (from the Underdog Victorious recording sessions)
- 2004: "Mickey and Me" (from the Underdog Victorious recording sessions)
- 2004: "Western Skies"
- 2004: "Blue America"
- 2006: "Bobbie Gentry"
- 2006: "Manhattan in January"
- 2006: "The End of Love"
- 2006: "San Francisco"
- 2007: "Odd Girl Out" with Richard Barone
- ????: "While You Were Sleeping"
- ????: "Billy's Thing"
- ????: "Small Things"
- ????: "Mom"
- ????: "My Life Uncovered"
- ????: "Ready for the Rapture"
- ????: "Red Purse"
- ????: "Texas"
- ????: "Money Shot"
- ????: "Everybody's Queer" with Richard Barone
- ????: "Bloody Valentine"
- ????: "Don't Fuck With Me"
- ????: "The Most Miserable Girl in the World"
- ????: "Ritalin Kid"
Underdog Victorious is the fifth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2004. ...
Underdog Victorious is the fifth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2004. ...
Underdog Victorious is the fifth album by American singer/songwriter Jill Sobule, released in 2004. ...
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Richard Barone is a musician, formerly the vocalist and leader in the New Jersey band The Bongos. ...
Richard Barone is a musician, formerly the vocalist and leader in the New Jersey band The Bongos. ...
Other Richard Barone is a musician, formerly the vocalist and leader in the New Jersey band The Bongos. ...
Lloyd Cole with his old band during a reunion concert in London, October 2004 Lloyd Cole (born January 31, 1961) is an English singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989 and for his subsequent solo work. ...
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Lloyd Cole with his old band during a reunion concert in London, October 2004 Lloyd Cole (born January 31, 1961) is an English singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989 and for his subsequent solo work. ...
Charlotte Caffey (born Charlotte Irene Caffey on October 21, 1953, in Santa Monica, California) is a rock and roll guitarist and songwriter best known for her work in The Go-Gos in the 1980s, including writing We Got the Beat. ...
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