So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter

So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
Live album by
Ani DiFranco
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2002
RecordedSeptember 2000 – April 2002
Genre
LabelRighteous Babe
ProducerAni DiFranco
Ani DiFranco chronology
Revelling / Reckoning
(2001) 		So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
(2002) 		Evolve
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Robert Christgau(1-star Honorable Mention)[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter is the second live album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music).

The opening track of the second disc, "Comes a Time", is an excerpt from the famous speech by Mario Savio, given before Free Speech Movement demonstrators entered Sproul Hall to begin their sit-in on December 3, 1964. His climactic words about "the operation of the machine" have been quoted widely ever since, out of context, as the existential emblem of the FSM.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Ani DiFranco

Disc one: Stray Cats
No.TitleLength
1."Swan Dive"6:48
2."Letter to a John/Tamburitza Lingua"7:50
3."Grey"5:31
4."Cradle and All"4:40
5."Whatall Is Nice"5:39
6."What How When Where (Why Who)"4:34
7."To the Teeth"7:09
8."Revelling"4:28
9."Napoleon"6:34
10."Shrug"4:36
11."Welcome To:"4:47
Total length:62:36
Disc two: Girls Singing Night
No.TitleLength
1."Comes a Time"0:22
2."Ain't That the Way"4:54
3."Dilate"5:55
4."Gratitude"3:49
5."Rock Paper Scissors"4:55
6."32 Flavors"4:02
7."Loom/Pulse"6:16
8."Not a Pretty Girl"3:20
9."Self Evident"9:10
10."Reckoning"5:22
11."My IQ"2:27
12."Jukebox"5:56
13."You Had Time"3:56
Total length:60:24

Personnel

  • Ani DiFranco – guitar, vocals
  • Ravi Best – trumpet
  • Shane Endsley – trumpet
  • Daren Hahn – drums
  • Todd Horton – trumpet
  • Jason Mercer – bass
  • Hans Teuber – clarinet, flute, saxophone, vocals, background vocals
  • Julie Wolf – keyboards, vocals

Production

  • Ani DiFranco – record producer, mixing, art direction, design, illustrations
  • Larry Berger – engineer supervisor, recording supervisor, photography
  • Andrew Gilchrist – engineer supervisor, engineer, assistant engineer
  • Greg Calbi – engineer supervisor, mastering
  • Susan Alzner – photography
  • Larry Berger – photography
  • Scott Fisher – photography
  • Eric Frick – photography
  • Heidi Kunkel – photography
  • Jason Mercer – photography
  • Julie Wolf – photography

Charts

Album

Chart (2002) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] 78
US Billboard 200 32
US Top Independent Albums 1
US Top Internet Albums 34

References

  1. ^ Lankford Jr., Ronnie D.. So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter at AllMusic
  2. ^ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
  3. ^ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City: Simon and Schuster. pp. 236-7. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. rolling stone ani difranco album guide.
  4. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.