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| 1. Too Young to Die |
| 2. I Don't Know How to Love You Anymore |
| 3. Elvis and Me |
| 4. It Won't Bring Her Back |
| 5. Sandy Cove |
| 6. Friends to Burn |
| 7. What Does a Woman See in a Man |
| 8. Postcard from Paris |
| 9. Just Like Always |
| 10. Adios |
| 11. I Will Arise |
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JIMMY WEBB Suspending Disbelief (2006 issue US 11-track CD album - Originally released in 1993 which marked Jimmys comeback for Elektra Suspending Disbelief features a mixture of personal and endearing work; including a love song to his sports car and memories of meeting Elvis. Complete with sleevenotes from Richie Unterberger)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
There is an honesty in Jimmy Webb's songs that sometimes comes painfully close to home. There are a few insights here that make you feel the man must have been looking over your shoulder while you insisted on wilfully making your own mistakes in the face of good advice.
"Sandy Cove" certainly hits some sore spots in its lament for chances lost and sand that slips through fingers. But where the usual expressions of this pain often lapse into self pity, Jimmy Webb mellows this into acceptance and redemption, which is a hard trick to pull. Tough stuff though, and I've certainly got 'cracks in all my mortar.'
Some of Jimmy's earlier albums have been criticised for unnecessary orchestration. Arrangements here are quite full and there are some driving tracks but the balance feels right this time.
A powerful and moving collection.
"Sandy Cove" certainly hits some sore spots in its lament for chances lost and sand that slips through fingers. But where the usual expressions of this pain often lapse into self pity, Jimmy Webb mellows this into acceptance and redemption, which is a hard trick to pull. Tough stuff though, and I've certainly got 'cracks in all my mortar.'
Some of Jimmy's earlier albums have been criticised for unnecessary orchestration. Arrangements here are quite full and there are some driving tracks but the balance feels right this time.
A powerful and moving collection.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If you already know Jimmy Webb's Music, then this Is the Album
for you, It Is just wonderful, he really writes the most beautiful Song's, Jimmy Is one of my favourrite Songwriters, I think you all will love It.
for you, It Is just wonderful, he really writes the most beautiful Song's, Jimmy Is one of my favourrite Songwriters, I think you all will love It.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Webb Proves the Best is yet to come.
28 Jun 1998
Format:Audio CD
Let's face it, you're either a Jimmy Webb fan or you're not. For those of us who thought that 1982's "Angel Heart" would be Webb's last album as a singer/songwriter, "Suspending Disbelief" has been a revelation, not least because this is Webb singing as we have never heard him before...but always hoped to. The voice is clear, pure, has good resonance and there's an abundance of good top notes...clearly some singing lessons in evidence or perhaps the influence of Linda Ronstadt who produced and also offers fine back up vocals on three tracks.
The repertoire is eclectic...ranging from superb "new" songs like the enchanting "Postcards from Paris,"...with its delicious elongated ending, to a mellow and melancholy country feel on the even newer "It Won't Bring Her Back" with Ben Keith on slide guitar. A strong and "ballsy" medium rock opener, "Too Young To Die" chronicles Jimmy's lasting affair with his "Cobra" ..that "sweet old racin' car of mine", and blows out of the water any suggestion that Webb is only about ballads, and Steve Lukather's guitar solo is an adrenaline hit. This track could well have been a single!
Melancholy, though, has been, and always will be, a trademark of this artist, and in "Sandy Cove" Webb gives us the definitive mid-life crisis song as he examines with extraordinary honesty and insight his own failures, and his inability to put them right. I am still unable...several hundred listenings later... to get all the way through this track without choking up.
The poignant "I Don't Know How To Love You Anymore" is another tear-jerker and stunning lyrically... though for this Webbophile, the arrangement does nothing for the song, and I'm left to wonder about the orchestration choice. However, "Elvis and ME" is a charming, picaresque homage to the king...with Jimmy as the fan, a lovely cut.
The weak track on the album is the show tune "What Does a Woma! n See In A Man". It belongs only in the musical theatre..the arena for which it was designed...or as part of a cabaret performance. It's strangely out of kilter with the rest of the album. Having said that, it offers us, amidst the slightly forced humour, and somewhat self-conscious cleverness, several poetic lines worthy of the best Webb has given us.
The last four tracks...Postcards from Paris, Just Like Always, Adios ( Jimmy solo with just the piano), and I Will Arise, are worth the price of the CD alone. The last track, adapted from the traditional Baptist hymn, boasts Jimmy reaching head notes we never suspected he had, and a glorious string arrangement (proving again that Jimmy is a good as it gets as a string arranger when he's "on")...with a "hoedown" feel giving way to sombre cellos for an elongated and almost spiritual finale to what must be...for any follower of Jimmy Webb's, the pinnacle of a somewhat topsy-turvy and patchy recording career.
If you loved 1977's El Mirage...you will want to own "Suspending Disbelief".
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
One of Webb's Best
11 Jun 1999
Format:Audio CD
Amazon needs to get the Bob Wills album cover down from the site, the one for Suspending Disbelief would be more appropriate! This is far from Jimmy Webb's last album, but certainly one of his best. His fans know what a treat this CD was when it first came out (1992), (first in 10 years)...after seven years I'm still listening to it. Best songs: Too Young To Die, I Don't Know How To Love You Anymore, Elvis & Me, and the Grand Finale....I Will Arise...a "Copelandesque" version of some old standard hymns. Only the genius of Jimmy Webb could conceive of this and pull it off so well.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not his best, but a well-done CD
19 May 2008
Format:Audio CD
Jimmy Webb's created some of the best music of the past 50 years yet he's very underappreciated as a performer. I've seen him live and I can tell you, he's one of the most interactive and gracious performers I have ever had the pleasure to see.
"Suspending Disbelief", which was produced by Linda Ronstadt, is not one of his best but it's pretty darn good. There's quite a few standouts in this CD. Here are picks from a lifetime Webb fan:
"Too Young to Die" is about Jimmy's affair with his Cobra. This one, which could easily have been done by Warren Zevon, proves he can rock with the best of them.
Too fast for comfort
Too low to fly
Too young...
"I Don't Know How to Love You Anymore," talks about the sudden realization you're out of love. It's the ballad you'd expect from Jimmy--"it's deafening when two's a crowd..."
"I will Arise" is the old Baptist hymn, but with Webb based orchestration. This goes back to the old days when Webb started as a church musician.
"Elvis and Me" talks about an experience with the King.
This CD is well worth the price if you like half the music. The funny thing is my favorites change every time I dust off this CD and listen. Yours probably will too.
Rebecca Kyle, May 2008
"Suspending Disbelief", which was produced by Linda Ronstadt, is not one of his best but it's pretty darn good. There's quite a few standouts in this CD. Here are picks from a lifetime Webb fan:
"Too Young to Die" is about Jimmy's affair with his Cobra. This one, which could easily have been done by Warren Zevon, proves he can rock with the best of them.
Too fast for comfort
Too low to fly
Too young...
"I Don't Know How to Love You Anymore," talks about the sudden realization you're out of love. It's the ballad you'd expect from Jimmy--"it's deafening when two's a crowd..."
"I will Arise" is the old Baptist hymn, but with Webb based orchestration. This goes back to the old days when Webb started as a church musician.
"Elvis and Me" talks about an experience with the King.
This CD is well worth the price if you like half the music. The funny thing is my favorites change every time I dust off this CD and listen. Yours probably will too.
Rebecca Kyle, May 2008
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