Sheryl Crow's proper debut - an earlier, slicker record was scrapped in favour of "Tuesday Night" - occasionally reaches too far in attempting significance, as when the album opens by name-checking Aldous Huxley. Usually, though, Crow and her band of LA session and singer/songwriter collaborators strike just the right tone. The "Stuck in the Middle with You" homage of "All I Wanna Do", the clanking guitar riff of "Can't Cry Anymore" and the funky threat of "What I Can Do for You" meld perfectly with the lyrics, resulting in a peak of mainstream pop-rock.