Randy Newman

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Randy Newman (a back-cover subhead brags, our champ "Creates Something New Under the Sun," which, for once, isn't an idle boast) was near impossible to find shortly after it first came out, though it was a critical pet. The Southern California songsmith went on to score a few less-than-representative hits (it's so hard to deal with people who equate Newman with Jimmy Buffett because of novelty singles like "Short People"). He also created some masterful concept albums, foremost among them Good Old Boys. But the basic Newman template was laid down with this first full recording: elegant Copeland-esque arrangements soaring over morose though frequently hysterical lyrics delivered with a conversational mumble that owes a lot to Sonny Boy (Rice Miller) Williamson. The best track: "Love Story (You and Me)," which summarizes a lifelong relationship in three demeaning verses. --Steven Stolder

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Average customer rating: Good, but a little too country/western Fun to drive with Cars! great cd Cars My boys love it!

Cars Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Disney | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Disney Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music $9.99 and Under | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Pop | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Soundtracks | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Classical | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music $9.99 and Under | Prices | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cars (Widescreen Edition) Cars: Lightning McQueen's Fast Tracks Happy Feet Cars Essential Guide (Dk Essential Guides) Disney Mack Truck Playset ASIN: B000EUMPBS Release Date: 2006-06-06

Tracks:

1. Real Gone - Sheryl Crow
2. Route 66 - Chuck Berry
3. Life Is A Highway - Rascal Flatts
4. Behind The Clouds - Brad Paisley
5. Our Town - James Taylor
6. Sh-Boom - The Chords
7. Route 66 - John Mayer
8. Find Yourself - Brad Paisley
9. Opening Race
10. McQueen's Lost
11. My Heart Would Know - Hank Williams
12. Bessie
13. Dirt Is Different
14. New Road
15. Tractor Tipping
16. McQueen And Sally
17. Goodbye
18. Pre-Race Pageantry
19. The Piston Cup
20. The Big Race

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Cars is a typical Disney-Pixar animated movie in that it deals with an anthropomorphic character (here, a car) and the heartwarming values of family and friendship. (Alas, we'll have to wait a little while longer for the company to take on greed and selfishness.) The accompanying soundtrack is equally typical in that it's split between catchy pop songs and a score by Randy Newman. The clear highlight of the pop tracks is Sheryl Crow's boisterous, huge-sounding "Real Gone" (her best song in ages). Rascal Flatts also cover Tom Cochrane's 1991 hit "Life Is a Highway," while John Mayer rocks out on "Route 66" (Chuck Berry's elegantly lean version is included as well). For his part, Newman continues his distinguished association with quality animation by supplying a nimble score. It's fun to hear him deploy riffs that wouldn't be out of place on a Quiet Riot album on the bombastic "Opening Race," while the bluesy "Bessie" does George Thorogood with a tuba. The CD's overall Southern flavor is emphasized by the frequent use of banjo and slide guitar, as well as by score tracks cantering about, like "McQueen and Sally." And, as usual, Newman delivers a nostalgic, misty-eyed song--in this case "Our Town," performed by that master of sensitive laid-back charm, James Taylor. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

Good, but a little too country/western.......2007-07-17

My family LOVES a couple of the songs - Sheryl Crow's "Real Gone" and Brad Paisley's "Life is a Highway," but several of the rest are just too mellow or country/western-style for our taste. But there's a pretty good remake of "Route 66," as well as the classic original. All in all, it's worth the money just for those songs.

Fun to drive with Cars!.......2007-07-13

Used Cars Gotta love it! The movie's great and having the music in the car makes it a fun ride!

great cd.......2007-07-10

Great movie soundtrack cd. Lots of good songs and music; if you've seen the movie, you can almost see the action going on with the different orchestral pieces. The kids love the songs. We've only had the cd a couple of weeks but the kids are already singing along with the songs; the kids are 2 and 5.

Cars.......2007-06-14

My son loved the movie and we love the soundtrack. Sheryl Crow's song is great!

My boys love it!.......2007-05-25

I love this CD as much as my boys do. It is so upbeat and fun! We listen to this in the car all the time and the boys love to tell me what scene is happening with each different song. They even like listening to the back half of the CD and describing each part that is going on. I would definitely recommend this for any Cars fan - it's great!

Average customer rating: A great CD for people who think, understand irony, and have a sense of humor RANDY NEWMAN The Best of Randy Newman-Poetic Lyricist as Musical Prodigy It is really a cd Too Bad There Are So Many Used Copies Up For Sale

The Best of Randy Newman Randy Newman Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 Good Old Boys (Bonus CD) (Dlx) Sail Away Michael: Music From The Motion Picture The Very Best of Aaron Neville ASIN: B00005NTQ4 Release Date: 2001-09-18

Tracks:

1. Mama Told Me Not To Come
2. You Can Leave Your Hat On
3. I Think It's Going To Rain Today
4. Sail Away
5. Political Science
6. Rednecks
7. Marie
8. Louisiana 1927
9. Short People
10. Little Criminals
11. It's Money That I Love
12. I Love L.A.
13. Miami
14. Take Me Back
15. Same Girl
16. Dixie Flyer
17. Happy Ending
18. You've Got A Friend In Me
19. Feels Like Home (Live, 1996)
20. Shame
21. I Miss You

Album Description

The songwriting genius' multi-label highlights on one CD! The first of its kind, this unique collection gathers 21 tracks released between 1968 and 1999, including Newman's greatest hits, album cuts, and soundtrack classics.

Customer Reviews:

A great CD for people who think, understand irony, and have a sense of humor.......2007-02-11

Creating a short list of all of Randy Newman's "Best Hits" is next to impossible because like any "Best Hits" album it is so subjective and narrow...especially with musicians, like Newman, who have had long-lasting, impactful careers over several decades. However, I felt this compilation is a great choice of some incredible songs.

"Political Science" (An appropriate song for our modern times), "Rednecks", "Sail Away", and "Little People" are sarcastic, hilarious and ironic. They are sung from a bigotted and racist point of view. He provides the listener an opportunity to see how illogical, irrational and dimwitted warmongers and racists truly are...while being funny.

He expresses some pretty deep, touching feelings in "Marie" which is told from the perspective of a man who can only expess his true feelings to a past love when he is drunk. "Feels Like Home" is an incredibly beautiful song that makes me think of my wife each time I hear it...while "You've Got a Friend in Me" from the movie "Toy Story" has a poignant, tender and sincere message that reminds me of my daughter every time.

"Mama Told Me Not To Come" (Made famous by Three Dog Night), "You Can Leave Your Hat On", "Little Criminals", "It's Money That I Love", and "Happy Ending" all have a bluesy feel and are raunchy and fun.

"I Love L.A." is frequently played at Dodger Stadium and makes me want to see a game in L.A. everytime I hear it.

RANDY NEWMAN.......2006-07-06

I WAS LOOKING FOR THE "MONK" LYRICS, AND DIDN'T REALIZE THAT RANDY NEWMAN WAS THE SAME ARTIST WHO WROTE "SHORT PEOPLE". IT WAS A VERY PLEASANT SURPRISE. I'VE READ OTHER REVIEWS OF THIS ALBUM, AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT PEOPLE NEED TO LIGHTEN UP AND HAVE SOME FUN. MR.NEWMAN WRITES SATIRE. TAKE IT IN THE SPIRIT IN WHICH IT IS WRITTEN AND ENJOY.

A RANDY NEWMAN FAN

P.S. WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT??

The Best of Randy Newman-Poetic Lyricist as Musical Prodigy.......2006-06-08

When I hear that line about "broken windows, empty hallways, pale-dead moon and a sky streaked with grey, I think of Randy Newman as being sometimes underated in the music business but regarded as a unique specimen of the artist whose highly unusual and endearing talents especially are significant to his legions of fans. There are three compositions that Randy performs on this CD that could sell the CD if they were actually by themselves. First is "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" which is soft rock's answer to something like the poetic value of Dylan's Positively 4th Street,and Short People which clearly represents the satirical and highly irreverent qualities that Randy also exhibits in "I Love LA". The latter is accompanied on MTV with what I believe to be one of the most gonzo and in your face videos I have ever seen, alluding to the underbelly and seedier side of a big city that the right coasters have always considered to be Nirvana.Randy Newman is more than just a spectacled and classy middle age singer song writer who sits at a piano in smaller venues and does the best he can to entertain. Specifically, he's a genius who weaves poetry and angst and satire and even sometimes vindictiveness to his music. Ventura Boulevard-We love it! Buy this CD, you definitely will love it too.

Jay Adler, Massapequa, New York

It is really a cd.......2005-12-28

This is just a correction to the guy who said this cd could not be played on any cd-rom, or converted to MP3; he must not know how to use his computer. I just recieved this for x-mas, and it plays in my computer, and I saved it as an MP3. As far as the music goes, it's Randy Newman's greatest hits, if you like Randy Newman, you'll like this disc.

Too Bad There Are So Many Used Copies Up For Sale.......2005-10-31

Well, just like Newman,an under-rated songwriter who never got the recognition he deserves so too a fickle buying music public not recognizing the artist Newman.
Cynical,coy, satirical,political,sentimental writing and music at it's best...in this voice of tin pan alley whimsy.
This CD is a great overview and play of the man's music and as all seem to agree the place to start...heartfelt authentic singer songwriters are a rare bird these days especially Newman's type because he is so hard to categorize..what was both his strength and a weakness...I hope he is happy and comfortable..

Average customer rating: Moving, Spectacular - a true orchestral classic!! By far one of the best movie soundtracks ever composed A home run soundtrack! And I don't even like baseball. Sweetly nostalgic, yet swingy and jazzy. I love the music/inspirational and moving!

The Natural (1984 Film) Randy Newman Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Soundtracks | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Field Of Dreams: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Rudy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Ragtime (1981 Film Soundtrack) Seabiscuit The Natural (Director's Cut) ASIN: B000002L6A Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Prologue 1915-1923
2. The Whammer Strikes Out
3. The Old Farm 1939
4. The Majors: The Mind Is A Strange Thing
5. Knock The Cover Off The Ball
6. Memo
7. The Natural
8. Wrigley Field
9. Iris And Roy
10. Winning
11. A Father Makes A Difference
12. Penthouse Party
13. The Final Game
14. The End Title

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Randy Newman's score for director Barry Levinson's 1984 adaptation of writer Bernard Malamud's baseball fable remains, like star Robert Redford's turn as the film's Roy Hobbs, somewhat mystic and decidedly larger than life. Newman's music flawlessly fuses overwrought Wagnerian grandeur with the more plaintive strains of Aaron Copland, arguably forming one of the film's most crucial narrative elements in the bargain. Perhaps because it's a score with a scale so broad and bold--the antithesis of Newman-the-songwriter's often terse, internalized musical monologues--the composer himself has since expressed reservations about the potent cues he's since dubbed "heromusik." Nonetheless, The Natural remains an impressive tribute to Newman's musical professionalism, even if his masterful craftsmanship produced something he's always seemed a bit wary of: a bona fide crowd pleaser. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Moving, Spectacular - a true orchestral classic!!.......2005-08-10

Randy Newman? Wrote and performed "Short People" Part of Bachman Turner Overdrive if I recall..

However when put to the task of a soundtrack for a movie about a baseball "Natural" Mr. Newman pulled out all the stops. You'll hear the famous clips from this CD during a "best of" sports feature or maybe a biography of a great hero. It's a must have for a cinematic classical collector. The composition includes soft and pleasant textures like walking in a magnificient wheat field on a sunny day - some rinky dink 20's style jazz...a caliope rendition of "Take me out to the Ballgame".

Grab your favorite beverage or herbal remedy, get in your favorite easy chair, load the CD and crank it up.

You'll love it.

By far one of the best movie soundtracks ever composed.......2002-05-22

Randy Newman is known to the non-cinematically-obsessed public as the sourpuss composer and gravelly-voiced singer of the tart novelty hit "Short People," but here is the work for which he should have won his well-deserved Oscar (instead of for the trifle he composed for 2001's "Monsters, Inc.").

With "The Natural," which he not only composed but conducted, Newman manages the pretty neat trick of stepping into the enormous shoes left by Aaron Copland. Newman takes the perfectly American pasttime of baseball and melds it perfectly with the American penchant for youth, sunshine, nostalgia, and happy endings--all without a single instance of treacle or falsity. He sounds Coplandian here without sounding slavish. He soars on wings of his own making and utterly enriches the film "The Natural" with his music.

"Prologue 1915 - 1923" opens the soundtrack and deftly sketches the career Robert Redford's Roy Hobbs character had in the minors and then briefly in the majors, limning the energetic youth of the new baseball player followed by the slower, more minor-key weariness Hobbs experiences as he seems to lose his touch. With "Knock the Cover Off the Ball," Newman somehow captures a sparkly, sunstruck afternoon out in the middle of a baseball field, the fierce concentration needed to do the deed demanded in the title, and the gathering speed of the ball itself. In "Winning," the big band, swinging tune says it all. You need brass balls to survive this ball game, son, and the music handily underscores that rule without the aid of a single lyric.

Had Randy Newman never written another film score beyond 1984's "The Natural," he could easily and justly have rested on these fine laurels. We are lucky that he didn't.

A home run soundtrack! And I don't even like baseball........2000-01-28

This the most magical soundtrack I have every purchased! I personally think it is Randy Newman's best work and as far as soundtracks go I put it up there with anything by Nino Rota. The way Newman uses the strings and paces the songs one would swear he was the prodigal son of Aaron Copeland. Of course he isn't but like Copeland's operas he definitely knows how to compose music which feels Americana. You can almost see wheat fields blowing and you'll certainly want t a piece of Apple Pie after hearing the title song, "The Natural." A must for any lover of soundtracks.

Sweetly nostalgic, yet swingy and jazzy........1998-12-30

Great movie music! The main theme is sweetly nostalgic of a simpler time, and the "Majors" theme is swingy and jazzy. The slower parts are relaxing to listen to, and the faster parts are great to dance to. Highly recommended.

I love the music/inspirational and moving!.......1998-06-12

The music on this soundtrack is great. It is inspirational and moving, may take some time to grow on you. If you like the movie and have a taste for nostalgia and great instrumentals this is a great album. I listen to it all of the time.

Average customer rating: Sail Away! Randy Newman political science Newman At His Best!! You Can Leave Your Hat On "Political Science" should be the national anthem

Sail Away Randy Newman Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Good Old Boys (Bonus CD) (Dlx) 12 Songs Little Criminals The Best of Randy Newman The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 ASIN: B000065DVA Release Date: 2002-05-21

Tracks:

1. Sail Away
2. Lonely At The Top
3. He Gives Us All His Love
4. Last Night I Had A Dream
5. Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear
6. Old Man
7. Political Science
8. Burn On
9. Memo To My Son
10. Dayton, Ohio - 1903
11. You Can Leave Your Hat On
12. God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
13. Let It Shine
14. Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong (Studio Version)
15. Dayton, Ohio - 1903 (Early Version)
16. You Can Leave Your Hat On (Demo)
17. Sail Away (Early Version)

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Odd man out in California's early-'70s panoply of singer-songwriters, Randy Newman didn't play guitar, refused to confess specific personal dreams and sins, and sidestepped the countercultural trinity of sex, rebellion, and self. Newman dared to be a neoclassical pop survivor, narrative guerilla, and prankster, and no album summarizes these gifts better than this 1973 classic, which found the singer, songwriter, pianist, and arranger spreading his wings to fuse the economy of his songwriting with his lush talents as a composer. The classic title song mingles its elegiac orchestral bloom with the devastating, deadpanned sales pitch of its slave trader protagonist, while elsewhere Newman wraps his whiskey drawl and laconic piano around acerbic meditations on God ("He Gives Us All His Love," "God's Song"), celebrity ("Lonely at the Top"), nuclear Armageddon ("Political Science"), and sex ("You Can Leave Your Hat On"). Sail Away captures funny, tragic, moving American pop at its zenith. Rhino's 2002 remixed, expanded reissue is fleshed out with early versions of "Dayton, Ohio 1903" and "Sail Away," the rarities "Let It Shine and "Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong," and a demo take of "You Can Leave Your Hat On." --Sam Sutherland

Album Description

2002 expanded & remastered reissue of 1972 album with 5 added bonus tracks (all previously unissued) 'Let It Shine', 'Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong' (studio version), 'Dayton, Ohio-1903' (studio version), 'You Can Leave Your Hat On' (demo) & 'Sail Away' (early version).

Customer Reviews:

Sail Away! Randy Newman.......2007-01-09

sigh . . . evidently no longer a Randy Newman fan. (rememberd "Short People" from way back).

Blessings to Amazon!

political science.......2005-08-02

randy's prime is here, his best album along with good old boys, every song is tops from this underated gem.

Newman At His Best!!.......2005-05-17

Randy Newman is an America original. He is one of our greatest singer-songwriters, whose trenchant humor, biting social satire, eclectic compositions and intelligent lyrics have set him far above the pack for decades. Musically adept and diverse in style, Newman has dozens of albums and hundreds of songs in his discography. He has composed movie scores including "Ragtime," "The Natural," "Parenthood," "Awakenings," "Toy Story," and "Pleasantville." His work in the film industry earned him 16 Oscar nominations including his first win for "If I Didn't Have You" from the film "Monsters, Inc."

"Sail Away" is one of my favorite Newman albums (1972), and one of his first. The title song is most powerful. Backed by a full orchestra, the track's wonderfully gentle melody provides a dark contrast to the disquieting voice of a slave trader convincing Africans of the bounty America has to offer. "Ain't no lions or tigers - Ain't no mamba snake/Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake/Ev'rybody is as happy as a man can be/Climb aboard little wog -Sail away with me." Yep! "It's great to be an American!" In the same vein, "Political Science's" casually genocidal American leader has ambitions of making major changes in the world. "Boom goes London and boom Paree/More room for you and more room for me/And every city the whole world round/Will just be an American town." 1972??? The more things change the more they stay the same.

Newman wrote the sardonic "Lonely at the Top," for Frank Sinatra. "Listen all you fools out there/Go on and love me--I don't care/Oh, it's lonely at the top." He thought Sinatra would love it. Old Blue Eyes did not. So Newman recorded it himself.

The terribly poignant "Old Man" never fails to move me. And the bitter, ironic "God's Song," makes some pithy statements about organized religion. "Memo to My Son" is a paean to parents everywhere - or perhaps the empathy here is for the kids. "Burn On," reminds me of the time Cleveland's Cuyahoga River caught fire. Seriously, I was there. Talk about water pollution! You Can Leave Your Hat On" is a mid-tempo erotic rock song that later became a hit for Joe Cocker.

"Sail Away" is an impressively even album. The music is simply wonderful. And the remastered reissue has an additional 5 bonus tracks. If you're a Randy Newman fan, you can't go wrong with this one.
JANA

You Can Leave Your Hat On.......2005-04-24

Randy Newman is in a class all his own. That's not to say he's the BEST of the best, but he certainly is a raging iconoclast. I mean, a portly, curly-headed, Jewish-raised Californian who arranges for orchestra, writes for children's films, and sings songs about short people, L.A., good old boys, God, and dancing bears... what? Despite its unconventional exterior the music of Randy Newman is some of the funniest, most intelligent in the pantheon of rock/pop/whatever you want to call it.

Although not his earliest, Sail Away was Randy Newman's first album to generate a deal of noise - it remains a favourite of fan and critic alike and to this day his most consistent seller. There's probably a reason for that: namely the quality of this record. Newman has never given in to songwriting formulas or "conventions", staking out territory where his contemporaries seldom tread. So you don't get the archetypical "silly love songs" or teenage angst so common in rock & roll - you get self-deprecating ironies, tales of African slave recruiters, and Simon Smith and his Amazing Dancing Bear, among others.

This idiosyncrasy ranges from the dismal to the ribald and hilarious, and everywhere in-between. For instance, God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) is a bleakly insightful take on religion; the equally incisive Political Science a side-splittingly funny slice of "foreign policy" courtesy one of Newman's trademark wackos. From a technical standpoint all the performances are outstanding, including the virtuosity of Ry Cooder and Randy Newman's own skills as a pianist among others. His voice may be limited, but he makes the best of it in his deadpan delivery. He's also always utilized orchestras in a unique way - you'd never be able to mistake one of his instrumental passages - and they blend totally naturally into the fabric of the music here. Not an easy task; just ask ELO's Jeff Lynne, one of the few songwriters out there whose orchestral arrangements complement the songs as perfectly as Randy Newman's.

As for the bonus tracks, the two original cuts (Let It Shine and Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong) are both excellent (albeit short), as are the alternate takes; the early version of Sail Away is particularly welcome.

Is Sail Away Randy Newman's best album? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But I can tell you what it IS: it's comical, it's perspicacious, and, most importantly, it's massively entertaining. So whether you're a newcomer, a longtime fan, or just somebody looking for a bit of good music, you can't go wrong.

"Political Science" should be the national anthem.......2004-12-10

Randy Newman has written many brilliant songs, but SAIL AWAY may well be his finest album. The 2-minute "Political Science" is certainly one of his greatest achievements, and the song is just as timely now as it was in 1973. What makes the lyric so great is that it distills exactly what so many Americans think about the world. It could be your friendly next-door neighbor, who seems like a perfectly nice person until you stumble into a political discussion, and then you realize that he is an immoral monster. It seems to me that "Political Science" should be the national anthem -- it's what large numbers of Americans really think, and if they disagree then they should be forced to change the attitude as well as the policies before they change the song.

I would like to include the entire lyric, but here is a sample:

"We give them money, but are they grateful, no they're spiteful and they're hateful. They don't respect us, so let's surprise 'em, let's drop The Big One and pulverize 'em."

"Boom goes London, and boom Pay-ree, more room for you and more room for me. Every city the whole world round will just be another American town, oh how peaceful it will be, we'll set everybody free ... They all hate us anyhow, so let's drop The Big One now."

Is Randy Newman being too sarcastic, too harsh? Just look at the anti-French movement among the republicanus neanderthalis recently -- "nuke France and gimme some Freedom Fries with my burger" -- and it seems clear that if anything he is too kind.

Thank goodness for Randy Newman in times like these. Along with Mose Allison, Stan Ridgway (see my 7/29/04 review of his brilliant latest, SNAKEBITE), and a few other mavericks, he understands America's dark side well enough to deflate its pretensions and hypocrisy with humor, from the inside.

Average customer rating: Wonderful Singer Calming beauty A beautiful voice

Infinite Voice Manufacturer: Time Art ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Bellini, Vincenzo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Delibes, Léo | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Stravinsky | Stravinsky, Igor | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Feast of Joy and Love Heavenly Peace ASIN: B000KEGFYQ Release Date: 2007-03-06

Tracks:

1. sous le dome epais
2. pavene
3. canto invierno
4. pastorale
5. casta diva from norma
6. enchantment
7. song of my soul
8. infinite voice
9. saint agnes and the burning train
10. gabriel's oboe-nella fantasia from the mission
11. sheep may safely graze
12. sous le dome epais from lakme

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful Singer.......2007-07-21

Surely Darlene Koldenhoven has one of the most beautiful female voices in the world. The song selections, the accompanying music and the quality of recording are supurb.

Calming beauty.......2007-05-28

Infinite Voice is one of my favorite albums to pop into the player after a long and difficult day at work. Its soothing lightly classical pieces with Koldenhoven's angelic vocals do much to sooth an agitated spirit and sing peace to the soul. Wonderful Darlene! We need more like this.

A beautiful voice.......2007-04-23

A classically trained vocalist with a Master's Degree in music from the Chicago Conservatory College, the golden voiced Darlene Koldenhoven has participated in a number of high profile pop culture products. In the 1980's she appeared on jazz composer Clare Fisher's Brazilian jazz vocal project, Freefall, which was awarded a Grammy in 1986 for Best Jazz Vocal Performance by a Group. In the 90's she appeared in and served as choir director for both Sister Act films, and in 1994 sung with Yanni Live at the Acropolis, a concert film reportedly seen by nearly 500 million people worldwide. She has also sung on recordings with Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand, Pink Floyd, Rod Stewart, David Byrne, and Ramsey Lewis, among others, and has authored a set of musical instruction books and CDs entitled Train Your Voice.

In the late 90's Koldenhoven began writing and producing her own solo recordings, including the adult contemporary Keys to the World, a gospel album called Free to Serve, and the Christmas album Heavenly Peace. This year she's back with an all new recording, entitled Infinite Voice, a collection of classically inspired compositions and new age arrangements of classics. Ms Koldenhoven's 5-ocatve voice is the only one featured on this recording, in some places layered to give a choral effect. Most of the instrumentation is synthetic, though several songs include acoustic instrumental performances from guitar, English Horn, oboe, flue, didgeridoo, and percussion.

Infinite Voice is a delicate and beautiful recording that will appeal to fans of light classical vocals from the voices of equally talented singers such as Filippa Giordano, Hayley Westerna, or Sissel.

Average customer rating: Good Old Boys..... I'm recovering an all-time classic. My Favorite Randy Album. ONLY VERY FEW CAN COMPETE WITH THIS

Good Old Boys (Bonus CD) (Dlx) Randy Newman Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rhino Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sail Away The Best of Randy Newman 12 Songs The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 Little Criminals ASIN: B000065DWH Release Date: 2002-05-21

Tracks:

1. Rednecks
2. Birmingham
3. Marie
4. Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)
5. Guilty
6. Louisiana 1927
7. Every Man a King
8. Kingfish
9. Naked Man
10. A Wedding in Cherokee County
11. Back On My Feet Again
12. Rollin'
13. Marie (Demo)

Tracks:

1. Rednecks
2. If We Didn't Have Jesus
3. Birmingham
4. The Joke
5. Louisiana
6. My Daddy Knew Dixie Howell
7. Shining
8. Marie
9. Good Morning
10. Birmingham Redux
11. Doctor, Doctor
12. Albanian Anthem
13. Rolling

Amazon.com essential recording

Randy Newman's 1974 concept album explores the modern contradictions and early-20th-century history of the Deep South with his bracing mix of irony, affection, and empathy for twisted psyches and hungry, venal dreams. What sounds like Southern gothic material is a virtuosic balancing act between light comedy and political broadside, shivering with moments of unexpected pathos: "Birmingham" is a booster anthem, "A Wedding in Cherokee County" a tableau of dysfunctional romance at once grotesque and touching, "Guilty" a probing confession of addiction, and "Louisiana 1927" a Copelandesque tragedy of the ravages of that year's historic flood. Capping it all is his classic, double-edged indictment of racism, "Rednecks," which turns the knife back on smug outsiders blind to their own prejudices. Rhino's 2002 remixed, expanded reissue caps the initial disc with a demo version of the ballad "Maria" and includes a fascinating salvaged-from-the-vaults second disc dubbed "Johnny Cutler's Birthday" (the working title for the project), featuring Newman sketching the finished album through songs and commentary. --Sam Sutherland

Album Description

Deluxe remastered reissue of 1974 album including 'Rednecks', 'Louisiana 1927' & 'Marie'. Plus a bonus disc featuring the 13-song Johnny Cutler's Birthday, the previously unissued 'rough draft' of this 1974 classic. The 2 discs are housed in a double slimline jewel case and a slipcase. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Good Old Boys............2007-07-17

I bought GOOD OLD BOYS when it first came out, being a fan from
hearing Newman's SAIL AWAY. This record helped me get through the
1970's (and beyond) when I moved back to the South. It helped to
keep things in perspective! One of my favorites of all time.

Really, I've turned more folks onto GOOD OLD BOYS. While a FEW didn't
GET IT, most folks were blown away by it. I've had it on record,
8-track, cassette, and now CD.

MARIE is one of the most tender songs ever written. LOUISIANA told of
the BIG STORM that wiped out the state in the 1930's - but this song
was a HEADS UP to all who listened - even more pointed post-Katrina.
GOOD OLD BOYS lays out the NORTH VS SOUTH (RACIST vs ENLIGHTENED) debate
with a clarity that no one would dare attempt to present except Newman.
A Wedding in Cherokee County is just plain GREAT! Back On My Feet Again
is one of my favorites due to it's EASTERN SHORE reference (my home).
I could go on about every song on this CD but I won't bore you. Just
go buy it and hear it for yourself - a true masterpiece!

I'm recovering.......2007-05-13

"Good Old Boys" is a classic album. I lost EVERTHING due to the flooding caused by the inadequate levees built by the Corpse of Engineers. Katrina took everything I owned, including this album. I was very satisfied that Amazon could replace it.

an all-time classic........2006-10-25

i have heard at least 7,000 albums in the course of life's mad journey, and this easily belongs in my favorite top 20. literate songwriting that few can match, along with superlative musical craftmanship, make this an all-time classic that belongs in every rock/pop music collection.

My Favorite Randy Album........2006-07-04

I love this album, it's so great! Every song is just to die for! As a song writer and piano player/drummer I find the music to be in good taste as well. I can't stop listening to it! If it weren't for this album I probly wouldn't like Randy at all, but now I'm nuts for him! I can't say enough about it. Go listen to it!

ONLY VERY FEW CAN COMPETE WITH THIS .......2005-10-23

i wasn't so familiar with randy newman's work except of "i love LA" so that when i bought that record, i found myself completely amazed by the whole thing, this is pop but this is also blues, and the way he sings the blues is quite rare, i mean the intention is really there, his spirit is totally dedicated to the blues and his melodies are so simple and full of sadness and makes you want to love and think about a whole spectrum of things, of course "marie" is incredible but my favorite is "guilty", love the lyrics too: "it takes a whole lotta medecine to believe that i'm somebody else", america should be proud of randy newman, i mean in the white musicians, i simply don't know anybody as good as him in the us. oh i mean almost cause elvis, buddy holly, jerry lee...

Average customer rating: Randy Newman...at his best Pleasant But Inessential Diamonds in the Smooth If You LIke Wry On The Rocks, Randy's Your Man Randy' Still Got It

The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 Randy Newman Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Best of Randy Newman Land of Dreams Sail Away Guilty: 30 Years Of Randy Newman Good Old Boys (Bonus CD) (Dlx) ASIN: B0000AKNEM Release Date: 2003-09-30

Tracks:

1. It's Lonely at the Top
2. God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
3. Louisiana 1927
4. Let Me Go
5. Rednecks
6. Avalon
7. Living Without You
8. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
9. You Can Leave Your Hat On
10. It's Money That I Love
11. Marie
12. When She Loved Me
13. Sail Away
14. The World Isn't Fair
15. Political Science
16. The Great Nations of Europe
17. In Germany Before the War
18. Ragtime

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Although he's now best known as the curly haired Prince of Pixar (he's written hit songs for a number of animated blockbusters, including Toy Story 2 and A Bug's Life, Randy Newman began his career as a misanthropic satirist and thwarted romantic. It's this version of Newman who shows up for Songbook Vol. 1, revisiting 18 of his compositions, most written in the '60s or '70s, and all stripped down to just voice and piano. The idea is borrowed from vintage tributes to the masters, the "songbooks" of Jerome Kern or Cole Porter, usually interpreted by a great vocalist such as Ella Fitzgerald. In Newman's case, it's hard to imagine anyone else singing a slave trader's smooth sales pitch ("Sail Away"), a deity's bemused take on mankind ("God's Song"), or a child murderer's creepy meditation ("In Germany Before the War"). Stripped of rock backbeats or orchestral sweetening, Newman's songs reveal their stark beauty and classic craftsmanship even more keenly. What may be most remarkable, however, is how prescient some of the songs seem now ("Lonely at the Top" predates the rise of People magazine and a revolving cast of whining superstars by half-a-decade) and how timely some of its humor is. "Political Science" may have been written during the Vietnam War, but its clueless narrator ("No one likes us I don't know why/We may not be perfect but heaven knows we try") sounds a lot like a Bush Jr. cabinet member or this season's hottest Fox News pundit. Since the early `80s, Newman has focused the lion's share of his attention on soundtrack scores and sly but cuddly buddy songs. Songbook Vol. 1 makes one wish Newman would devote more of his energies to writing new songs as topical, vibrant, and biting as his old ones. --Keith Moerer

Customer Reviews:

Randy Newman...at his best.......2007-07-05

To listen to Randy Newman sitting at a piano is pure pleasure. His lyrics are thought out and have meaning and purpose. The CD starts with "It's Lonely at the Top" with a quiet piano composition that flows into words about being the best (and still being lonely). Other great songs include "Louisiana 1927" (which tells about the 1927 Flood) with historical accuracy. The songs on the album make you think including the song "The World Isn't Fair" in which Newman tells Karl Marx the world isn't fair....it isn't and never shall be despite the ideas of Marx. Then, the song "Political Science" comes along with lyrics such as "We give them money, but are they grateful? No they're spiteful and they're hateful" when talking about the United States giving money to our "friends" (countries) with a great U.S. Centristic view of the world.

This is a great CD. Great music (including the piano version from one of his songs from "Toy Story") that makes you think about life, the world and the top notch lyrics of Randy Newman.

Pleasant But Inessential.......2007-05-26

Sometimes it pays to revisit something before sounding off. I thought that this disc had been substantially overpraised here and elsewhere, and was sharpening my pen to give it an outright pan: a substantial set of songs ill-served by mummified late-career recreations; pencil sketches beside the richer hues of the original oil paintings. I gave it another listen in its entirety before writing, and that would have been too harsh a view. It even has some competitive strengths I had forgotten: it's a very generously filled disc, and it has been beautifully produced by the distinguished Mitchell Froom -- Newman's piano (the only musical instrument) is heard in glowing recorded sound of such precise fidelity that one can hear the felt covering the strings when he pedals. The reservations I have are at the level of performance and concept rather than production.

When a musical artist returns after a period of decades to the same material he has previously set down, the main criterion by which we must evaluate the wisdom of the endeavor is, does he have anything new to say? Has his interpretation "deepened"? Are there shadings available to him that were not available before? To all of these questions I would have to say no (although my questions do not always apply well here; I'm not sure a "deeper" version of "Political Science," which was always puerile and probably was intended to be, is possible or desirable). Newman's performances throughout this set are assured but cautious and low-key; he's *too* familiar with these songs. There's no discovery, or rediscovery, only the professionalism of routine. It's telling that he seems most enthusiastic in the two most recent songs ("The Great Nations of Europe" and "The World Isn't Fair," from '99's unjustly commercially ignored BAD LOVE).

Some reviewers have praised the disc because they prefer to hear him with the accompaniment only of his piano. I don't quite go along with that, as it applies to this set, for a couple of reasons:

(1) Newman is, of course, an estimable composer of orchestral scores, and his skill as an arranger is one of the things that most attract me to his work. I almost invariably have the sense on his pop albums that he has chosen a particular setting for a song for very specific reasons, be that setting spare, lush, something in between, or spare and building *to* lush. Think, for example, of the swell of the strings and brass as the slave trader drives home his pitch in the chorus of "Sail Away" (the verses of which are much more lightly scored). The beauty is as false as the promises the character is making, but the music is as compelling and seductive as it should be: sweetness with a terrible, decadent rot at the center. The "unplugged" version of the same song on the present album seems pallid by comparison. I believe that goes for other songs here that were originally recorded with orchestra: certainly "Louisiana 1927" and "Marie." The quiet, stark version of "In Germany Before The War" included here, on the other hand, matches the LITTLE CRIMINALS version; both treatments well serve this creepy, disturbing song -- a minor masterpiece of elliptical dread and implied menace.

(2) Even though I grant the premise that Newman is capable of captivating performances when he's alone at the piano, I don't think the safety-first displays on THE RANDY NEWMAN SONGBOOK should be anyone's Exhibit A. If you have the 1998 box set, compare the present disc to the demos of "Days of Heaven," "Going Home (1918)," "Something To Sing About," "What Have You Done To Me?" "The Longest Night," and "Laugh And Be Happy." Despite the occasional ragged edge, *those* recordings paradoxically seem like true "performances"; they're full of wit, daring, feeling, boldness, variety of delivery. The SONGBOOK recordings (though intended all along for commercial release) seem like the "demonstrations." Both his playing and his singing were dynamic and energized on the demos, at any tempo, in a way that I missed here. The comparison brings me to another point: while he has lost nothing in his touch at the piano, his vocals have declined post LAND OF DREAMS, and I'm not sure whether it's attributable to the aging process or just a layer of rust that's set in from his devoting more of his time to writing film scores than singing in the last 15 years. I noticed a heavy-handedness creeping in on FAUST and BAD LOVE -- a tendency to sing monotonously loudly and sort of shamble and belt through songs where a lighter touch would have been appropriate (e.g., "Every Time It Rains"; "I Miss You"; "My Country"). It's even more noticeable here, on songs he sang better (in a purely mechanical sense) decades ago.

When I saw the track listing, I most looked forward to hearing "When She Loved Me" -- the poignant ballad sung by Sarah McLachlan for TOY STORY 2 -- performed by its composer, but be forewarned that the version here is only a brief thematic reminiscence on the piano (as are the other movie themes). Thus the album deprives itself of another potential boasting point.

It may seem as though I still am being unduly negative. This warrants three stars for the quality of the songs and the immaculate sonics, but I feel it amounts to less than any non-soundtrack album Newman has ever released, and is less essential even than a few of the soundtracks (certainly RAGTIME). It likely came about as a result of commercial calculations, not on Newman's part but on that of his new label. With Rhino having a one-disc greatest hits album on the market, culled from the superb box set and containing many of these same songs in their original, definitive renditions, his current label, Nonesuch, wanted a competing disc to tempt cultists and to snare (dare I say, mislead) newcomers. I don't blame Newman for going along with it; he has always simply wanted his songs to have the widest possible exposure, and whatever I feel about this particular disc, his songs deserve all the attention they get and more. I only hope that he's been busy writing in the ensuing years, and that his next release for Nonesuch will be as thoroughly original as he is. His gifts are as an observer and a creator, not as the docent of his own musical museum, however gamely he plays that role.

Diamonds in the Smooth.......2006-11-22

Twenty years ago, while on tour promoting his then-recent release of Trouble in Paradise, Randy Newman told me in an interview that though he'd performed his songs in concert with an orchestra, a band, and solo, he thought solo was best for what he does. Having just returned from his historic, sell-out solo concert in the LA Philharmonic's Songbook series, and having also auditioned this latest release - The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol. 1 - I would have to agree: Newman is first and foremost a solo act. He is absolutely unique, and a delightful enigma. His current concert tour has featured most if not all of the tracks on this album, to very good effect. This is a terrific cross-section of songs by one of America's most consistently excellent songwriter/composers. The album spans the history of Newman's iconoclastic portfolio, and contains what many, including Newman himself, would consider some of his best work. A personal favorite of mine is the haunting "In Germany Before the War," based, Newman has claimed, on the story of child-murderer Peter Kurten, also the subject of Fritz Lang's proto-noir classic "M". But all of the songs are good, and a few are true jewells; among the best in the entire American songbook. Newman is truly a great American living artistic treasure. If you only ever buy one Randy Newman album, this wouldn't be a bad choice at all. It is quintessentially Newmanesque. (Happy Birthday, Randy!)

If You LIke Wry On The Rocks, Randy's Your Man.......2006-10-15

"Most of my songs aren't autobiographical, or I'd be in an institution," Mr. Newman said after he had played half a dozen of them, getting an appreciative laugh. The audience was fully aware that his music enacts a tug of war between honesty and fallacy, and that his tone can oscillate from steeply ironic to disarmingly sincere." New York Times

Every once in awhile, you come across an artist that speaks to you, personally, intellectually, intuitively and gracefully. Someone you think, "I would love to have a conversation with, and what a great friend he would be." That person for me is Randy Newman. My best friend re-introduced me to him. We had the pleasure of seeing him in concert at Carnegie Hall, recently. Randy Newman walked on stage and it was his; his and the piano. He sat down and the evening became him. The songs are his and he speaks to us, and he brings us into the music. The Randy Newman Songbook, Vol.1 has taken awhile and as he says "Interviewers will ask why it took me five years to make an album and I'll say, `It didn't take five years -- I didn't do anything for five years,I watched tv like you do."

"It's Lonely at the Top", starts the CD and he is more reflective and mature. On this evening, Barbra Streisand was playing at "The Garden", and Randy had played this song to her. "She may be singing it this evening he mused." We all recognize his satire in "God's Song" - in which the Gods has contempt for all faiths. "Political Science" is even more to the point as it was in the Vietnam era, with its US view of the rest of the world. He may still be playing a devil in "Sail Away", and "Rednecks" which speaks about Lester Maddock and the wonderful self deprecating" It's Money That I Love". "Living Without You" and "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" shows us his poignant and tender songs. As with his would-be ladies man "You Can Leave Your Hat On" he makes these characters sound so human and we recognize them as us. It was Joe Cocker, he says, that put the beat and rhythm to the song that made it so popular. "Lousiana Rain" is as poignant and meaningful now as it was in the 1920's.

The intelligence, grace, and craft of Newman's songs are shown here at his peak. And while there's a little flash in his piano playing, a little boogie, alot of blues, he is recognized by me and others as a down to earth man, one we would like to know. This CD starts to summon his songs written over the years, and this is the first of three. It appears that Randy is not in any hurry to finish these songbooks, but we do know the best is yet to come.

The Guardian sums up Randy Newman; "He may well be the greatest contemporary American songwriter; he's easily the cleverest. And, by a long shot, the funniest. If you like wry on the rocks, Randy's your man."

Intelligently, Gracefully, Heartily, and Wryly Recommended. prisrob 10-15-06

Randy' Still Got It.......2006-08-02

I've been Randy Newman fan since the beginning -- got his first records when they were still that, vinyl, and then had to replace 'em as technology changed -- tapes, CDs, though I haven't been able to bring myself to iPod-ery.

This album, with Newman and his piano, is the "Randy Unplugged" version of songs ranging from his classics, like "Sail Away," and "It's Lonely at the Top," to newer material, like "The Great Nations of Europe," and "The World isn't Fair," and there is not a clunker in the bunch.

If you like Newman, you can't pass this up. If you are just discovering him, this is a terrific place to start. I still love the orchestral versions of these pieces, but stripped-down here, they offer a clean, clear look at the man's genius, just him and his keyboard.

(And you might want to find Bad Love, his previous album which was underrated and full of gems, while you are at it.)

Yeah, the movies and the Oscar(tm) and all, but this is where Newman shines -- when he is by himself and telling it like he sees it.

Average customer rating: Newman's cheery view of 1980s American culture... A Big Nasty Redhead At My Side... The Master of Rock Noir This is Fabulous Stuff

Trouble in Paradise Randy Newman Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Oldies | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classic Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Land of Dreams Little Criminals 12 Songs Born Again Randy Newman Creates Something New Under the Sun ASIN: B000002KYN Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. I Love L.A.
2. Christmas in Cape Town
3. The Blues
4. Same Girl
5. Mikey's
6. My Life Is Good
7. Miami
8. Real Emotional Girl
9. Take Me Back
10. There's A Party At My House
11. I'm Different
12. Song For The Dead

Amazon.com

He's written some of the thorniest, darkest vignettes ever tucked into the verses and chorus of a pop song, but Randy Newman's greatest commercial successes have come with his most ephemeral material. "Short People" was a throwaway, albeit a terrific one, but it catapulted him onto pop charts and generated controversy among dim-bulbs who didn't realize he was kidding. Dwarfing that hit (pun intended) was "I Love L.A.," which has become an anthem despite the squalor of its imagery and Newman's hilarious inclusion of some of the ugliest thoroughfares imaginable in his litany of glorious local streets. Trouble in Paradise thus derives much of its familiarity from this one romping gag, yet its best songs tilt toward Newman's darker side, none more so than "Christmas in Capetown," which reconstructs the holiday through the eyes of an Afrikaner racist. Ho, ho, ho. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

Newman's cheery view of 1980s American culture..........2004-11-20

Newman makes a surprising claim in "Ragtime's" CD 2002 issue booklet. Referring to "Trouble in Paradise" he says "I think that's my best record. Not many others do, but I do." Newman then credits his film score composition for vastly improving his pop albums. This may sound puzzling coming from the man responsible for "12 Songs", "Sail Away", and the amazing "Good Old Boys". When speaking of Newman's accomplishments, "Trouble in Paradise" rarely receives effervescent laudations. The album actually seems mostly forgotten even though it made #67 on Rolling Stone's "Best Albums of the 1980s" list.

Newman's career took a turn in 1977 that led to 1983's "Trouble in Paradise". Newman's "Little Criminals" began the divergence from the heavily orchestrated acoustic folky sound of his 1960s - 1970s work to the more electronic sounds of the 1980s. True, a lot of this reflects the trends of the time, and maybe Newman had to follow the scene from necessity, but the trends blare like neon in this album. "Trouble In Paradise" simply sounds like a 1980s album. The synthesizer sounds and production scream of the era. The song "Miami" was even featured on an episode of "Miami Vice" (1986's "Trust Fund Pirates", episode #043; yes, anything can be found on the internet).

Regardless of the sounds and production values, "Trouble In Paradise" contains some great Newman. Arguably, it vastly improves on 1979's "Born Again". "I Love LA" starts off the album on Newman's typical tongue-in-cheek-but-sounds serious note. The video received almost constant MTV airplay, but the song didn't come close to "Short People's" chart status. "Christmas In Capetown" explores a nasty 1980s theme: apartheid in South Africa. This time the tale gets told from the point of view of one of those who "went along with the status quo" of the time. It's probably the album's best song. "My Life Is Good" probably qualifies as the album's 2nd best song. The lyrics comprise a rant (of a person who has a little too much of the spoiled good life) to a teacher who tries to question him. His rebuttal? "My life is good you old bag!" Some classic haunting Newman ballads also dot the album. "Same Girl", "Real Emotional Girl", and "Song For The Dead" prove that Newman hadn't completely abandoned his earlier style. The remaining songs, apart from the very obvious hit grope "The Blues" (even Paul Simon shows up with rather mixed results), range from great to simply good Newman. The lesser songs typically get saved by their lyrics (e.g., "I'm Different" is very funny even if it's not a great song). The lyrics in general, along with the album's title, explore the ugly side of paradise. Broken cities, racism, neuroticism, sexism, greed, obstinance, date rape, poverty, self-importance, and people who have trouble with change. "Trouble In Paradise" is Newman's portrait of 1983 America. The portrait seems to resemble Dorian Gray and Goya's "The Family of Charles IV". Trouble in Paradise, indeed.

"Trouble In Paradise" and 1988's "Land of Dreams" completely exhaust Newman's 1980s pop album output. By 1983 Newman found himself well entrenched in the Hollywood filmscore scene. Pop albums became something he did between more lucrative film music, as the grand total of 2 albums from 1980-1989 attests. This trend continued into the 1990s ("Faust" and "Bad Love" were Newman's only 1990s non soundtrack releases). Still, the albums he did release make up for the empty years. After all, two great albums a decade beats the pants off of 10 crappy albums a decade.

A Big Nasty Redhead At My Side..........2002-11-30

Trouble In Paradise veers away from the more 'traditional' Randy Newman songs, i.e., the trademark 'shuffles' and, well, variations on shuffle tempos. Here he takes a few more risks, shakes things up a bit, and deliberately works outside of himself to come up with a whole new sound. The good news is that Trouble In Paradise contains the best songs of Newman's entire catalogue; conversely, it also contains some of his worst.

'I Love LA', the opener, is without a doubt one of the best songs Newman has ever written. A twisted love paean to the sunny city itself, Newman juxtaposes an upbeat rock track to some suspect lyrics, singing of such unsavoury locales as 'Santa Monica Boulevard' and 'Sixth Street' while a chorus echoes "we love it!"

'Christmas in Capetown' is a brilliant song, again one of his best. It captures the anxiety and hostility of an Afrikaaner racist as he laments the state of South Africa, at the same time propagating the gap between blacks and whites with his racist overtures.

'My Life is Good' is excellent, as well as very funny. Newman assumes the role of an upper-class husband rocked by the news of his son's misdemeanours at a "private school" which "many famous people send their kids" to, he brags. The reference to Bruce Springsteen ("Rand, I'm tired... why don't YOU be the boss for a while?") and the line following that one (which can't be mentioned), is the funniest thing Randy's ever produced.

The remaining excellent songs are 'Take Me Back', 'Real Emotional Girl', 'Same Girl' and 'Mikey's'.

Conversely though, 'The Blues' is offensive in that it ridicules kids who take solace in music (that's hitting below the belt). Also musically's it's not a very good song. 'I'm Different' is the worst thing Newman's ever written - completely dreadful. 'Song for the Dead' doesn't work, and 'There's a Party At My House' doesn't make the grade either. So one star comes off for those ones.

But, barring the four bad tracks, Trouble in Paradise is an incredibly entertaining album that shows us a new side of Randy Newman. Here his songs take a new shape. They're longer, ringing in at an average of four minutes, as opposed to two. The songs also don't sound the same for four minutes - Newman mixes the whole thing up, so verses, choruses and bridges all sound different. Pick up Trouble in Paradise - it's a very underrated Newman album, and, what's more, Newman himself considers it his best.

The Master of Rock Noir.......2000-09-02

This is probably Newman's most enjoyable album, in terms of stinging skepticism and lacerating humor. "I Love L.A." is his great practical joke on the city--thousands ended up singing it at Lakers games, carefully avoiding the line about the "bum down on his knees." "Christmas in Capetown" actually makes you feel pity for a South African racist (while showing the ugliness of apartheid attitudes), in words that it would be impossible for a white artist to use today. "Mikey's" will appeal to every middle-aged dude confronted with the Backstreet Boys. "The Blues" (sung with Paul Simon) sends up self-pity in rock lyrics (while at the same time acknowledging the pain.) "My Life is Good" is a parody of Springsteen and an act of scalding self-criticism. And "I'm Different" may be Randy's greatest song, an exhilarating anthem for misfits everywhere--let's see Eminem top it.

This is Fabulous Stuff.......1999-06-04

Why do more people not know about this recording. It is so good. Forget that the backbone of Toto backs him up on this and does a damn good job. The real stuff here is in the writing. The lyrics twist the knife or tear the heart. The music could be the child of Gershwin from some slightly twisted parallel world. We have all heard 'I Love L.A.', and its fun even after you hear it time and time agian, but, listen to 'Miami'. This song is something else. And, 'Real Emotional Girl' ...I know her....poor wonderful creature- the girl and the song.'My Life is Good' is simply one of the funniest songs ever written. Who cares this recording is 15 or whatever years old, it plays pretty damn good today.

Average customer rating: couldn't make it through (1 star?) Genius Newman on the brink of big 1980s success... Fabulous album Mister Randy Newman

Land of Dreams Randy Newman Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Oldies | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Trouble in Paradise Little Criminals 12 Songs Sail Away Good Old Boys (Bonus CD) (Dlx) ASIN: B000002LF9 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Dixie Flyer
2. New Orleans Wins The War
3. Four Eyes
4. Falling In Love
5. Something Special
6. Bad News From Home
7. Roll With The Punches
8. Masterman and Baby J
9. Red Bandana
10. Follow The Flag
11. It's Money That Matters
12. I Want You To Hurt Like I Do

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During the 1970s, singer/songwriter Randy Newman distinguished himself by dodging the prevailing confessional trend that was de rigueur for his peers, preferring to build his songs around richly detailed, often grotesque characters, and taking his story lines from anyone's history but his own. By the late '80s, however, his parallel ambitions as a film composer now yielding a separate, equally distinctive body of work, Newman was relaxed enough to allow introspection: 1988's Land of Dreams spins Newman's childhood sojourn in wartime New Orleans into the wonderful, opening title song and the farcical "New Orleans Wins the War," relives grade school traumas ("Four Eyes"), and offers a bleak portrait of a marriage unraveling on the quietly devastating "Bad News from Home." These songs, and two atypically tender love songs, "Something Special" and "Falling In Love," are as close to autobiography as he's ever gotten. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

couldn't make it through (1 star?).......2006-06-17

I admit, I'm not being a good reviewer here. It's important to live with music for a while, let it hit you from different angles, when critiquing. I haven't listened to the album in it's entirety.

I decided to buy the album after hearing 'Sail Away' - a friend loaned me the album and I fell in love instantly: his heart stopping clarity, his cynic lover American gaze.. Sail Away, where it's not overly simple, is elegaic and powerful. So, I fell in love with Sail Away and rushed to my computer to order anything else I could find by Randy. My first two orders were this and Randy Newman's first album. The first album SOARS! it's one of my favorite discoveries of the last five years! His orchestral arangements flesh out the simplicity of his vignettes so that each song is a miniature symphony. The lonliness of his voice is made beautiful by the orchestral richness -- and the caterwalling, the wail, really sings in it's infancy. Anyway -- that first album took everything that I loved about Sail Away and magnified it.

Land of dreams is destroyed by its claustrophobic mid 80's production -- the life that is so apparent in his first album here is completely plastic, formless, tired. Listening to the first couple tracks made me immensely sad. The lyrics, too, seem predictibly nemwanesque. It's an attempt at honesty -- I bet the fans at the time loved this -- but it seems so colored, so dramatized, full of smoke and mirrors, I can't help but feel manipulated. This is LA's cookie-cutter Randy Newman. Roll em out, ship em hot. Americans love caricature.

I had the same reaction to a compilation of ray charles duets. The authenticity of Ray's character was pummeled by horrible production -- synth strings, drums machines, big cymbal rolls and glistening chimes -- the drama was overbearing. Mocked the wonderful flaws of Ray's voice. It's like the producers want you to forget that this is a person singing -- this is the same voice this person orders pizza with, yelled at the umpire with... It's aweful karaoki.

Like I said, I haven't made it through the CD. I intend to try again. I'm sorry that I have to put 'stars' to my feelings. I put three stars so that you the reader might not discard this review as cynical, overbearing. But I feel like the recording is unapproachable. It's like watching an interview between Christina Aguilara and Anselm Kiefer -- how painful! How awkward and Painful!

It's interesting to note that on Randy's most recent recording (Songbook vol. 1) which features just Randy at his piano playing through some of his favorite pieces, he plays nothing from this record. I wonder how he feels about this recording.

Genius.......2006-02-19

Does Randy Newman ever write a bad song? I don't think so. What a great CD. I could listen to this masterful collection of songs every day.

Newman on the brink of big 1980s success..........2004-12-01

Mark Knopfler, of Dire Straits fame, said about his "collaboration" with Randy Newman that "I'm doing this for Randy, I don't need the cash." In 1988, when Knopfler co-produced this album, Dire Straits were still riding the seemingly permanent wave caused by "Brothers in Arms" (which included the then ubiquitous "Money For Nothing"; MTV and radio stations couldn't stop playing it). He backed Newman on "Saturday Night Live" playing "It's Money That Matters". Newman suddenly appeared everywhere: on "The Tonight Show" and "Late Night With David Letterman". In fact, most of the album was played live on various television shows in 1988. Attentive Newman fans probably thought, maybe, just maybe, this will be Newman's huge break? Finally he will get the recognition he deserves! Then he can quit writing film scores and put out more than two albums a decade!! THANK YOU MARK KNOPFLER!!!

Well, of course we know what happened. "Land of Dreams" did well enough ("It's Money That Matters" wafted in and out of the airwaves in 1988), but, alas, was not the huge blockbuster some thought it could or should be. Newman went back to his lucrative day job and didn't surface again until 1995's "Faust". In his wake, however, he left a great album.

"Dixie Flyer" and "New Orleans Wins the War" are amongst Newman's best songs. Both talk about his southern American upbringing (both were also produced by Knopfler; his trademark volume-pedal guitar seeps in and out of the mix). "Four Eyes" takes on the subject of childhood cruelty in a sink-or-swim manner imposed by his father. Newman's record of his first taste of reality? The 1980s sythesizers kick in here as well, changing the mood and sound drastically from the first two songs. "Falling in Love" (produced by ELO's Jeff Lynne - so Newman was apparently forgiven for 1979's "The Story of a Rock And Roll Band") and "Something Special" should have put Newman on the charts. Both are uplifting unsappy portaits of that fuzziest of all human emotions. The eerie "Bad News From Home" presents the other side of the story. Nothing special about that love. "Roll With The Punches" reintroduces Newman's famous "Big Jerk" character (the same who sang "Yellow Man", "You Can Leave Your Hat On", "Memo To My Son", "Short People" and many others). It speaks for itself. "Masterman and Baby J" doesn't play too well these days. In 1988 it played like a great parody of the lame pop rap that was just beginning to infiltrate the airwaves. Unfortunately, it hasn't aged well. The same can be said for "Red Bandana". These two tracks are the album's weak spot. "Follow The Flag" presents an empty anthem. Which flag is being followed? The assumption is the American Flag, but why think that? It more reflects on people's tendency to group under a symbol. "It's Money That Matters" sounds a little too real for comfort at times. Lyrically, it now seems a bit too prophetic for its own good. Still a great song. Then the devastating closer: "I Just Want You To Hurt Like I Do". On tv and in concert, Newman often introduces this one as his "We Are The World". He asks the audience to imagine a big line of people, hands joined, all swaying to the rhythm and singing in unison. The song is also amongst Newman's best and most poignant. Whew, what a closer.

Newman closed out the 1980s with incredible style. Unfortunately he did only produce two non-film albums that decade (and went on to do the exact same in the 1990s). Newman never lost it, and still hasn't. One wonders if the sheer paucity of his later output contributes to his continued quality. If so, then the wait between albums was well worth it.

Fabulous album.......2004-11-10

This is Randy's most personal album, telling his story through his satire and brutal honesty coupled with brilliant musicianship and arranging. It isn't until you get to his failed attempt at lampooning rap midway through that he stumbles briefly. But the listener will gladly forgive him because of jewels like "Something Special" "Dixie Flyer" "Falling in Love" "Four Eyes" and the incredibly heart-breaking "I just want you to hurt like I do." These are some of the best songs he's ever written and recorded.

Mister Randy Newman.......2004-03-20

Brilliantly cynical, sensitive and melodic... as usual. Like Woody Allen, Randy Newman is not as successful in the US as he is in Europe... des perles a des cochons!

Average customer rating: Great music, atmospheric production DO NOT BUY IF PLANNING TO PLAY ON PC Newman breaks out... No sex, but drugs and rock and roll Darkly subtle,yet amazingly bright

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Tracks:

1. Have You Seen Me Baby?
2. Let's Burn Down The Cornfield
3. Mama Told Me Not To Come
4. Suzanne
5. Lover's Prayer
6. Lucinda
7. Underneath The Harlem Moon
8. Yellow Man
9. Old Kentucky Home
10. Rosemary
11. If You Need Oil
12. Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues

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With 1970's 12 Songs, Randy Newman eschewed the string-driven expanse of its self-titled predecessor for unorchestrated solo and rock quartet arrangements (Ry Cooder, Clarence White of the Byrds, and Jim Gordon of Derek and the Dominos are among the sidemen). If anything, the lyrical perspective on these songs is stranger (and certainly more paranoid) than on any other collection the singer/songwriter has ever done. "Let's Burn Down the Cornfield" explores arson as an aphrodisiac. In "Lucinda" the narrator pleads in vain for his California golden girl ("in her graduation gown") to get out of the way of a beach-cleaning vehicle. "Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues" is a free-associating shuffle that manages to evoke Bing Crosby, Sonny Boy Williamson, and the Rolling Stones for no logical reason. 12 Songs sold nearly as pitifully as Randy Newman, but one of its tracks--"Mama Told Me Not to Come"--lined Newman's pockets when it became a No. 1 hit for Three Dog Night in the summer of 1970. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Great music, atmospheric production.......2007-04-21

"12 Songs" is among my very favorite albums, much less Randy Newman albums. Totally different in mood and color from his first self-titled record, this one is swampy, murky, and hangs together as an artistic statement without being a self-conscious song cycle. I play this disc more than any other Newman work -- and that's 37 years after I first added it to my collection. The understated,stark accompaniment is pitch-perfect and serves the dark atmospherics of the songs -- just bluesy slide guitars, drums, bass and piano. By comparison, his follow-up, "Sail Away," while extremely brilliant, sounds thrown-together. A top 10 desert island disc, in my humble opinion.

DO NOT BUY IF PLANNING TO PLAY ON PC.......2005-12-01

This is a copy of the review on Amazon.com for Van Zant's Get Right With The Man which is another Sony corrupted title.

"This CD secretly installs DRM (digital rights management) software on your PC without your permission. Not only does it do this, but the software then hides itself by installing as a "root kit."

As per WikiPedia,

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Root kit
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A root kit is a set of tools used by an intruder after cracking a computer system. These tools can help the attacker maintain his or her access to the system and use it for malicious purposes. Root kits are known to exist for a variety of operating systems such as Linux, Solaris and versions of Microsoft Windows.

A rootkit typically hides logins, processes, files, and logs and may include software to intercept data from terminals, network connections, and the keyboard. In many sources, rootkits are counted as trojan horses.
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In this instance, Sony installs DRM software to copy protect their CD, and prevent it from being copied to various devices, all the while not telling you, the user, or letting you uninstall it because it hides itself from the user and Windows. Manually trying to uninstall it like some people have done, results in their CD-Rom drives disappearing entirely from Windows, as Sony installs their own custom CD-Rom drivers onto the system.

DO NOT SUPPORT THIS WRECKLESS KIND OF COPY PROTECTION. SHOW THE MUSIC BUSINESS THIS IS *YOUR* MUSIC. *YOU* PURCHASED IT, AND THEY SHOULD *NOT* BE ABLE TO DICTATE HOW YOU CAN USE IT.

Do not buy this CD. "

A list of affected titles can be found here:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004144.php

And another part of an Amazon.com review for the Van Zant CD

"Amazon rocks. They pulled they infected CD's from sale and allowed these reviews that tell of the problems. Shame on Sony they not only messed with the consumers but also the artists."

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Celine Dion, On ne Change Pas (Epic)
Neil Diamond, 12 Songs (Columbia)
Our Lady Peace, Healthy in Paranoid Times (Columbia)
Chris Botti, To Love Again (Columbia)
Van Zant, Get Right with the Man (Columbia)
Switchfoot, Nothing is Sound (Columbia)
The Coral, The Invisible Invasion (Columbia)
Acceptance, Phantoms (Columbia)
Susie Suh, Susie Suh (Epic)
Amerie, Touch (Columbia)
Life of Agony, Broken Valley (Epic)
Horace Silver Quintet, Silver's Blue (Epic Legacy)
Gerry Mulligan, Jeru (Columbia Legacy)
Dexter Gordon, Manhattan Symphonie (Columbia Legacy)
The Bad Plus, Suspicious Activity (Columbia)
The Dead 60s, The Dead 60s (Epic)
Dion, The Essential Dion (Columbia Legacy)
Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten (Epic)
Ricky Martin, Life (Columbia) (labeled as XCP, but, oddly, our disc had no protection)

Newman breaks out..........2003-01-13

This album has none of the insecurity of Newman's first release "Randy Newman." On that album, Newman relied heavily on walls of orchestra for backing. On this album, Newman abandons the orchestra almost with a vengence. This album is made up mostly of songs with a small band. There is heavy slide guitar on some tracks thanks to Ry Cooder, and some of Newman's best songs are here.

The obvious one is "Mama Told Me Not To Come" which Three Dog Night took to the top of the charts. The version on "12 Songs" is vastly superior, and considering that song's success it's surprising that more people didn't seek this album out at the time. Sales were poor in general.

"Old Kentucky Home" is one of Newman's best and funniest songs. It also is a harbinger for a future project of Newman's: the American South (he would deal with this topic 2 albums later).

When introducing "Yellow Man" on "Randy Newman Live", Newman describes the song as "a pinhead's view of China." It is just that. This is Newman's first foray into the world of singing about racial sterotypes - references to rice and excessive frugality abound. It is an easily misunderstood song, and similar in theme to some songs that would get him in trouble years later. It's not as outright offensive as some of his later treamtments of racism, so it's harder to catch the joke.

Newman also takes on a rare cover: "Underneath the Harlem Moon." This song also includes at least one racial slur, and the lyrics are strangely absent from the CD booklet. With Newman singing - knowing what we know now - the song takes on an ironic twist. His method of not being afraid of racial sterotypes and parodying them in a subtle way, makes Newman a pioneer in getting these words and feelings into popular culture and thus into popular conscience. Rather than sweep them under the carpet in an "everything's ok" move, he faces them outright, puts them on the table and lets the listener come to their own conclusions. This method would reach its peak on "Good Old Boys" a few years later. "12 Songs" has a taste of what's to come.

Newman's voice is confident and pronounced on this album. His piano, sorely lacking on his first album, pounds wonderfully in the mix. "12 Songs" is well produced, well paced, and brilliantly written. It's no mystery why it makes so many "Best albums of all time" lists.

No sex, but drugs and rock and roll.......2002-11-09

This may be one of the most brilliant albums ever made, and when you consider that Randy Newman was, at the time, so strung out on one addictive substance or another that he has since admitted he has no recollection of MAKING this album, it's probably not the best thing to play for your kids if you're trying to talk them out of using drugs!

Indeed, I once saw Newman in concert and when somebody called out for "Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues," the strange, paranoid rant at the end of this album, Newman laughed and said, "No, I don't do that one ever since I quit taking drugs."

That said, the songs on this album will burn a hole in your soul with their ascerbic wit. "Let's Burn Down the Cornfield" is a favorite with me, as is the song about poor old "Lucinda," and then there's "Suzanne," "Have you seen my baby," and gee, just the WHOLE THING is wonderful. Highly, enthusiastically recommended...

Darkly subtle,yet amazingly bright.......2000-09-01

I don't like to classify albums as best or worse, mainly because each album represents a time period in the artists life, so comparing two or three albums wouldn't make much sense.

12 songs is unlike any other newman album. It's VERY bluesy,and has a very smooth atmosphere. You learn this by the second track(lets burn down the cornfield).

It's plane and simply a mood album. And one of the best mood albums I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.

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