The Evening Of My Best Day
by Rickie Lee Jones
  • Record Label: V2
  • Release Date: Oct 7, 2003
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8

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  1. DavidZ
    Dec 21, 2006
    3
    Although her voice is still strong it sounds tired. Her politics do not convince. It's sounds like she's desperate to be relevant and will do anything to get attention. This time out she attacks George Bush but she does not seem to be a bright political thinker ala Bob Dylan. Overall, the farther her career slides into obscurity, the more calculating she seems to become.
  2. AFan
    Apr 24, 2006
    10
    To use a timeworn phrase: A very welcome return to her essence. Man, this lady is something special.
  3. MarkR
    Apr 24, 2006
    10
    Like anybody with an association with Nirvana would know the first damn thing about the magnificence of a musical mind like RLJ's. Ignore nitwit Charles, and ask yourself: If Rickie's muse had truly deserted her, then what in the hell are Hidalgo, Frisell, and the usual top-drawer studio crowd doing rushing to back her up? Precisely. And therein is the reason you won't find Like anybody with an association with Nirvana would know the first damn thing about the magnificence of a musical mind like RLJ's. Ignore nitwit Charles, and ask yourself: If Rickie's muse had truly deserted her, then what in the hell are Hidalgo, Frisell, and the usual top-drawer studio crowd doing rushing to back her up? Precisely. And therein is the reason you won't find Nirvana types in that same studio. The music demands so much more than that.… Expand
  4. CharlesD
    Sep 27, 2004
    2
    Nirvana producer Steve Albini said it best "Rickie Lee Jones is Liz Phair: she's a chore to listen to and she's more talked about than heard". Rickie Lee Jones career ambitions may not have died but certainly her muse has. This record is a thin one.
  5. FilipeC
    Sep 3, 2004
    9
    Magnificent! heartfelt songs with a political message.
  6. RichardH
    Apr 19, 2004
    10
    Uncanny depth and feeling. Powerful anti-Neocon political sentiments that you can sing. More gasoline just waiting for a spark.

Awards & Rankings

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#35 Best Album of 2003

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. PopMatters
    70
    If things seem schizophrenic it's because they are.
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  2. AllMusic
    80
    An utterly compelling, even riveting, selection of tunes that go from bright to opaque, to dark and back again by album's end.
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  3. Village Voice
    80
    Her magnetism radiates as powerfully as ever.
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