Kiss Me Review

Nico Passantino, music journalist extraordinaire, nails the essential appeal of Sixpence None The Richer's only song WITH any appeal.

clipped from www.stylusmagazine.com efore Stacie Orrico, Evanescence and “The way Kathy needed Regis that’s the way I need Jesus”, those of us who’ve harboured a 2,000 year long hatred of the Jews for the manner in which they brutally murdered our Lord had Sixpence None The Richer. And for a few glorious moments in 1999, the heathens had a reason to listen in as well. Simply put, “Kiss Me” is the sound of a band using up all of their lifelines on one question, and winning the million anyway. It’s the sound of a group of musicians using up every single piece of talent they would have diasporaed over their entire back catalogue, and instead gorging themselves on genius for one solitary track, unconcerned that they’d never match those feats again. It’s a sound that resides at the pinnacles of CCM, Dawsoncore, and twee-pop. It was the best single of 1999. It was the best indie-pop single of the nineties. It’s the best AOR tune of the past twenty years. It’s the best song to mention barley ever. It’s a masterpiece.