Vanessa Carlton Album: “Thousand Miles/Twilight Live”

Late one evening I was watching videos on MTV and most of them were ones I had seen before and didn't interest me. But when Vanessa Carlton's video for "A Thousand Miles" came on, I was entranced. I asked myself "who is this girl?" Her amazing piano playing is what first caught my attention. I've never seen anyone play as well as she does. I was thrilled when I was shopping one day and saw the CD/single for it on sale, especially for such a low price. Another thing that pleased me is that she wrote the two songs on here ("A Thousand Miles" and "Twilight") by herself and probably did the same on her soon-to-be released debut album. Vanessa is extremely talented and deserves to be noticed!

I first heard Vanessa on New York's Metro cable channel about three years ago. She was playing a small, intimate club, and from the first note I was captivated. As the first reviewer mentioned, she is quite appropriately being compared to Tori Amos. Her piano playing immediately channels Tori's earlier work [not the last album Tori did, which was HORRIBLE!!!]. I've seen her perform several times down in the Village, and she's even better in person. Ever since, I've been keeping a close eye out for the release of any of her music. The first sign was a song on the "Legally Blond" soundtrack, which turned out to be this single, "A Thousand Miles". Really good song, but in my opinion, the second song, "Twilight" is even better. It's very emotive, and to use Tori as a comparison again, it very much reminds me of her song "Winter".

At 1.99, these two songs are an absolute steal, and if the work on this is any indication, Vanessa will be a house-hold name by the end of 2002. You won't be dissapointed when you hear her. Run out and get this CD!

P.S. - She already has a following here in New York. I was lucky enough to get the second to last copy of this CD at the Tower Records on the Upper West side :)

An outstandingly good single, and at a very nice price. I heard "A Thousand Miles" on my local radio station and was hooked by the wonderful piano playing. It is one of those songs I can listen to again and again. The second song on the single, "Twilight" is also excellent, if only I could stop listening to "A Thousand Miles" long enough to listen to it again.

One thing for your information, the enhanced CD does not run on a Windows XP computer.

I first heard this song on the Launch Music website. It was Number 10 on the Krush Video Countdown. I'd never heard of Vanessa Carlton or A Thousand Miles, but I feel in love with the song instantly. I love a good song with a driving piano beat....the this song more than delivers. In short, this is an awesome song and I can't wait for more from Vanessa!

needless to say, the success of alicia keys has sent record labels scrambling for fresh-faced piano aficionados to play christina aguilera to alicia keys' britney spears. some of them have worked out, others haven't. vanessa carlton is likely to be one that works out. while she doesn't have the type of street cred that will appeal to the lil' mo, blu cantrell and tweet crowd, she definitely has the cinderella credentials--former prima ballerina who followed her dreams to the big city and wound up a pop phenom--that will send fans of mandy moore and jessica simpson, in droves, to their local music store.

the song, itself, will quite possibly be the feel-good love song of the year and demonstrates carlton's years and years of piano training (her mother is a musician and teacher). most impressive is the fact that, while squeaky clean, freshly scrubbed and reaking of youthful exhuberance, the song is not so childlike that it will not appeal to adults.

the pairing of "thousand miles" with "twilight", however, raises more questions than it answers, the b-side being as different in style and content from the a-side as, say, karen carpenter and missy elliott. in fact, "twilight" sounds almost as if it escaped from a fiona apple recording session which, of course, is not to say that it is a bad song, but rather that it presents a little congnitive dissodance when preceded by "thousand miles". regardless, vanessa carlton is a true talent with tons of promise.