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Tarfumes.com - Harps & Angels
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List Price: $18.98
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Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0075597998931
Label: Nonesuch
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Nonesuch
Release Date: 2008-08-05
Studio: Nonesuch
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Randy Newman's first studio album of all new material in nearly a decade is, by turns, hilarious, poignant and scathingly satirical. Harps and Angels often has an easy going Crescent City feel, with Newman on piano fronting a small combo and revealing, as Rolling Stone put it after the Carnegie Hall show, his serious love and study of the New Orleans piano tradition.
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Summary: we love it
Comment: I think this is one of the best cd's i've heard in a long time-from ironic to just plain beautiful lyrics- this cd has it all
Bravo
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Summary: Better than Ever!
Comment: Randy Newman is at his best here. When sweet, his songs will tear your heart out. When sarcastic and political, his tongue at its acid best. When honest -- brutally funny and pulling no punches. I really love this set of pieces. This is melodic and beautifully crafted thinking man's music. How he continues to write this way, so consistently excellent never ceases to astound me. This is a must buy, because you will want to listen over and over and over again. There's much more here than meets the eye at first go-see.
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Summary: just great
Comment: I saw RN last year solo & it was great & he did a few cuts off what would be H & A. This is a solid effort better that Bad Love from 1999...Froom's production is much better on this recording. The title track is an instant classic. Newman's pop recordings have been few & far between the last 20 years but always worth the wait. Not a week offering here & nice in a short LP length recording (less IS more-NO FILLER)...equally as good as Brian Wilson's most recnt offering (if not better)& Lindsey Buckingham's.
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Summary: A voice of reason in dangerous times
Comment: Randy Newman is modern day, singing Voltaire who has turned his prodigious wit on a selection of social concerns that lead him to question whether the best days of the US Imperium are over. His targets here are the more serious offenders: religious humbuggery ("Harps & Angels"), failed political leadership ("A Few Word in Defense of Our Country"), lack of engagement with the serious concerns of our times ("Laugh & be Happy"), social and financial inequality ("Piece of The Pie"), dysfunctional relationships ("Only a Girl"), and parental confusion ("Korean parents"). There are two particularly beautiful ballads on this album that are likely to outlive the ephemeral political concerns of the other material. "Loosing You" is the confession of a middle aged man who has it all, but remains haunted by profound loss. The counterbalance is the wonderfully orchestrated ballad "Feels Like Home". The narrator finds love again after a long respite, returning to a place where he feels a profound sense of belonging. The essence of the song is encapsulated in this beautiful line: "feels like I'm on my way back where I'm from, with your embrace, down a long dark street and a sigh of wind in the night. It's alright, `cause I have you here with me, and I can almost see the dark feels light". Randy Newman is a marvel. I saw him live at the Capitol in Sydney in the late 1970's. For me, at times he projects the persona of a curmudgeon at a pantomime, but his wonderful catalogue belies any misanthropy. He is a great American, but more importantly a citizen of the world, in love with the best the human race has to offer, but vigilant about its failings. May he live forever.
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Summary: A sensitive man....
Comment: I am not sure exactly how long Randy Newman has been making music but he still has got IT as far as I am concerned. Thoughtful heartfelt songs yet again.
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