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The music video for "I Kissed A Girl" was featured on an episode of ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]''.
The music video for "I Kissed A Girl" was featured on an episode of ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]''.


==Discography==
===Studio albums===
*''[[Things Here Are Different]]'' ([[1990 in music|1990]])
*''[[Jill Sobule (album)|Jill Sobule]]'' ([[1995 in music|1995]])
*''[[Happy Town]]'' ([[1997 in music|1997]])
*''[[Pink Pearl]]'' ([[2000 in music|2000]])
*''[[The Folk Years 2003-2003]]'' ([[2004 in music|2004]]) ''(Independent Release)''
*''[[Underdog Victorious]]'' ([[2004 in music|2004]])
*''[[Jill Sobule Sings Prozak and the Platypus]]'' ([[2008 in music|2008]])


===Compilations===
*''[[I Never Learned To Swim: Jill Sobule 1990-2000]]'' ([[2001 in music|2001]]) ''(Best of Compilation)''

===EPs===
*''[[It's the Thought That Counts]]'' [EP] ([[2000 in music|2000]]) ''(Independent Release)''
*''[[Be Mine... Please]]'' [EP] ([[2001 in music|2001]]) ''(Independent Release)''
*''[[It's the Thought That Counts (Re-issue)]]'' [EP] ([[2005 in music|2005]])'' (Independent Release)''

===Singles===
*1990: "Too Cool to Fall in Love"
*1990: "Living Color"
*1995: "I Kissed a Girl"
*1996: "Good Person Inside" (Radio Version)
*1996: "Supermodel" (Radio Remix)
*1997: "Bitter" (PG-13 Edit)
*1997: "When My Ship Comes In" (Edit)
*2000: "One of These Days" (Radio Version)
*2000: "Rainy Day Parade"
*2001: "Stoned Soul Picnic"
*2004: "Cinnamon Park" (PG Edit)
*2007: "San Francisco"

===Soundtrack appearances===
*1995: "Supermodel" from ''[[Clueless (film)|Clueless]]''
*1996: "Where Do I Begin" from ''[[The Truth About Cats & Dogs]]''
*1996: "Truth Is You Lied" from ''[[Grace of My Heart]]''
*1996: "The Secretive Life" from ''[[Harriet the Spy]]''
*1999: "Rainy Day Parade" from ''[[Mystery Men]]''
*2003: "Tel Aviv," "Nothing Natural," "Bitter," "Somewhere in New Mexico," "Freshmen," and "Vrbana Bridge" from ''[[Mind the Gap]]''
*2005: "Love Is Never Equal" from Jenny McCarthy's ''[[Dirty Love]]''

===Various artist compilations===
*1992: "Too Cool to Fall in Love" from ''An Elpee's Worth of Productions''
*1995: "The Jig Is Up" from ''Grooves: Volume 8''
*1995: "Good Person Inside" and "The Man in the Boat" from ''Spew''
*1995: "Merry Christmas from the Family" from ''You Sleigh Me''
*1997: "Stoned Soul Picnic" from ''Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro''
*1997: "I Will Survive" from ''In Their Own Words'' and from ''Hard Rock Live''
*1998: "Saddest Day of the Year" from ''A Christmas to Remember''
*1999: "Just a Little Lovin'" from ''Forever Dusty''
*1999: "Sunrise, Sunset" from ''Knitting on the Roof''
*2000: "Rainy Day Parade" from ''New Talent Spotlight Volume 2''
*2000: "I Kissed a Girl" from ''K-TEL Pop Alternative''
*2004: "Don't Let Us Get Sick" from ''Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon''
*2007: "Down By The River" with John Doe from ''Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity''

===B-sides===
*1995: ''Queen of Spades'' (from the ''Supermodel'' single)
*1997: ''Loveless Motel'' (from the ''Bitter'' single, later included on album [[Pink Pearl]])
*2000: ''Lucy at the Gym'' (from the ''When My Ship Comes In'' single, later included on album [[Pink Pearl]])
*2004: ''Almost Fell'' (Bonus track on the Borders edition of [[Underdog Victorious]])

===Unreleased===
*2000: "Youthful Indiscretions"
*2003: "Nothing I Can Do" (from the off-Broadway production [[Prozak and the Platypus]])
*2004: "Perry St." (from the [[Underdog Victorious]] recording sessions)
*2004: "Let's Get Back Together" (from the [[Underdog Victorious]] recording sessions)
*2004: "Mickey and Me" (from the [[Underdog Victorious]] recording sessions)
*2004: "Western Skies"
*2004: "Blue America"
*2006: "[[Bobbie Gentry]]"
*2006: "Manhattan in January"
*2006: "The End of Love"
*2006: "San Francisco"
*2007: "Odd Girl Out" with [[Richard Barone]]
*2007: "Letting Go Of God" (from the movie "Letting Go Of God")
*2007: "Women Whose Costume is Just that They're Slutty"
*2007: "We are the Writers" on the [[2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike|2007 Writers Strike]]
*????: "While You Were Sleeping"
*????: "Billy's Thing"
*????: "Small Things"
*????: "Mom"
*????: "My Life Uncovered"
*????: "The Rapture"
*????: "Red Purse"
*????: "Texas"
*????: "Money Shot"
*????: "Everybody's Queer" with [[Richard Barone]]
*????: "Bloody Valentine"
*????: "Don't Fuck With Me"
*????: "The Most Miserable Girl in the World"
*????: "Ritalin Kid"
*????: "Agony Cafe"
*????: "Hearts And Minds"

===Other===
* ''Clouds Over Eden'' (1994) -- [[Richard Barone]]
*''The Negatives'' (2000) - [[Lloyd Cole]] and The Negatives
*''Unfabulous'' -- TV show soundtrack
*''So Jill'' -- Tribute song written & performed by [[Jane Wiedlin]], [[Lloyd Cole]] & [[Charlotte Caffey]]


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 21:11, 10 June 2008

"I Kissed a Girl" redirects here. This page is about the singer-songwriter. For the Katy Perry song of the same name, see I Kissed a Girl (Katy Perry song).
Jill Sobule

Jill Sobule (born January 16, 1961 in Denver, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter best known for the controversial 1995 song "I Kissed a Girl", and for "Supermodel" from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads, a duality reminiscent of such 1970s American songwriters as Warren Zevon, Harry Nilsson and Randy Newman. Autobiographical elements, including Sobule's Jewish heritage and her adolescent battles with anorexia and depression, frequently occur in Sobule's writing. An appreciable percentage of her work is also dedicated to detailed accounts of both her own fictional female creations and such troubled but celebrated women as Joey Heatherton and Mary Kay Letourneau, whose stories are usually used to make ironic comments about fame and celebrity.

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Music

Sobule uses both satire and personal experience to sing about a range of issues, including sexuality, depression, war, abandonment, and greed. According to her website bio, a central preoccupation of her work is the classic one: "Love found, love lost, love wished for and love taken away." Many of her songs incorporate humor into their narrative. She often creates detailed character sketches, especially of women.

Generally, her songs are unconventionally folk-like, using lounge music percussion flourishes and retro horn charts not usually found in tracks recorded by mainstream artists. Occasionally her arrangements intentionally mimic works by other performers, most noticeably on "Rainy Day Parade" from 2000's Pink Pearl, which quotes TV's The Mary Tyler Moore Show theme to lend ironic triumphalism to a song about a woman going back on anti-depressant medication, and "Cinnamon Park" from the 2004 album Underdog Victorious, which paraphrases portions of the 1972 single "Saturday in the Park" by the band Chicago. Her rhythmic sensibility at times recalls cocktail music deity Esquivel, and her harmony parts can resemble the Beatles on some of her more elaborate album tracks -- possibly a partial legacy of her early recording efforts with Nazz founder and avowed Beatlemaniac Todd Rundgren.

Collaborations

Jill Sobule and Lloyd Cole during a concert in Seattle

In the late 90s, Sobule toured with Richard Barone as "The Richard & Jill Show". Together they wrote "Bitter" from Happy Town, "Rock Me To Sleep" from Pink Pearl, "Big Shoes" from I Never Learned To Swim, and "Waiting For The Train" from Barone's Clouds Over Eden album. They also appeared together in the underground film Next Year In Jerusalem, which features another of their compositions, "Everybody's Queer".

In 2000, Sobule joined Lloyd Cole's short-lived band The Negatives.

In 2004, she played one of the five leads in the film Mind The Gap.

In 2006, Sobule met Julia Sweeney, the actress, writer and comedienne, and started performing the "Jill and Julia Show", a compilation of songs and stories. They performed at the James Randi Educational Foundation meeting in Las Vegas on January 19, 2007.

In 2007, Sobule teamed up with John Doe to produce and record a cover of Neil Young's "Down By The River" for the American Laundromat Records benefit CD Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity. Other contributing artists included Lori McKenna, Tanya Donelly, Josie Cotton, Kristin Hersh, Britta Phillips, and The Watsons Twins.

Sobule toured twice with the late Warren Zevon, whose penchant for sardonic storytelling she shares. The two artists frequently accompanied one another during each other's sets, and Zevon was known on multiple occasions to take the lead vocal on Sobule's "I Kissed a Girl". Sobule has said that part of their bond came from the fact that she, like Zevon, was best known for a single fluke hit (Zevon's being "Werewolves of London").

In recent public appearances, Sobule has expressed interest in compiling a live album, in addition to releasing a new studio disc. On a blog from her myspace account, Sobule stated she is recording two new albums, one with underground string quartet Ethel.

Cultural references

The music video for "I Kissed A Girl" was featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head.


References

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