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So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter

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So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
Live album by
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

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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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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Album

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

References

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  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.