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On Star, Belly's 1993 million-selling debut album, former Throwing Muse and Breeder Tanya Donelly created an album of haunting, edgy, melodic folk-alterno-pop that in many respects was the precursor of today's crop of female singer/songwriters. With songs like the slow-burning "Gepetto" and monster hit "Feed The Tree", Donelly proved she had an off-beat, almost perverse reading on the cradle, the grave and decay--the lyrical concerns which would later serve artists like Alanis Morrisette and Sarah McLachlan so well. Belly, however--boasting such impeccable alterno-rock credentials--had a hard, meaty rock sound to match their sweet, breathy vocals. And on tracks like "Angel" and the crystal-bright "Stay", the Rhode Island band proved they also had a knack for churning out incredible, catchy hook-lines. --Everett True

King  >>

Star  >>

On Star, Belly's 1993 million-selling debut album, former Throwing Muse and Breeder Tanya Donelly created an album of haunting, edgy, melodic folk-alterno-pop that in many respects was the precursor of today's crop of female singer/songwriters. With songs like the slow-burning "Gepetto" and monster hit "Feed The Tree", Donelly proved she had an off-beat, almost perverse reading on the cradle, the grave and decay--the lyrical concerns which would later serve artists like Alanis Morrisette and Sarah McLachlan so well. Belly, however--boasting such impeccable alterno-rock credentials--had a hard, meaty rock sound to match their sweet, breathy vocals. And on tracks like "Angel" and the crystal-bright "Stay", the Rhode Island band proved they also had a knack for churning out incredible, catchy hook-lines. --Everett True

Sweet Ride - The Best of Belly  >>

Sweet Ride: The Best of Belly is not a proper greatest-hits album, even though it does have two of Belly's best-known tracks: the massive hit "Feed the Tree", and the US single "Now They'll Sleep". Granted, with only two albums to draw from (Star and King), the choices would at first seem rather limited for a collection like this. But Belly were no typical band--frontwoman Tanya Donnelly's beautiful voice and haunting-yet-catchy take on pop made sure of that--and this is no typical trawl through the archives: of the 18 tracks on Sweet Ride, only eight appeared on their albums (and of these, four are different versions anyway). The rest of this album is made up of b-sides, rarities and three cover versions, a collection of cast-offs that are nonetheless as good as any of the tracks that actually did make it onto their two albums. As Belly were one of the finest bands to come from the 4AD roster in the early 1990s, praise doesn't come any higher. --Robert Burrow

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