- Audio CD (28 Dec 1989)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sony Music Entertain
- ASIN: B00000DS55
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 612,332 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
After a series of idiosyncratic albums in the early eighties, in which Burnett perfected his stripped-down, rhythmic acoustic guitar-based style for independent labels, this 1987 album followed hot on the heels of his surprising, yet charm-laden eponymous "country" LP.
The sound is noticeably bigger, more widescreen, although Burnett produced it himself - it's almost as if he consciously switched into "major label mode" with this album. The singer's acoustic guitar is replaced by a funereal string section on "Purple Heart", in which he duets with a stratospheric Bono guest vocal, whilst on "Image", a selection of vibrato-tastic opera singers wobble along with him in exotic languages.
Highlights for me are the sardonic "Euromad", which recounts a European tour gone awry, to a perfectly planned and executed backing ("Maybe it was Paris, its blazing dignity and light..." he sings, as an accordion drifts into the mix and out again within the space of that one line), the Stones-like stomp of "You Could Look It Up" - surely the best Stones song Mick 'n' Keef never wrote - and the frenetic B-movie satire "Dance Dance Dance". Opener "The Wild Truth", written in the midst of Reagan-era America, is still as frighteningly relevant in these days of flexible standards of truth.
Slightly more challenging are those tracks where the lyrics take complete precedence over the music ("Frank Cash") and, whilst it's no doubt poetry, the tune seems to have gone AWOL. These occasions are mercifully few, however, and the result is possibly T Bone Burnett's most accessible album.
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Sporadically Brilliant but Bland by T Bone Standards
11 Sep 2002
Format:Audio CD
Sometimes T Bone is too smart for his own good; other times he tries to make a straight rock album and you get the sense he's just slumming. "The Talking Animals" doesn't quite gel, even though "The Killer Moon," co-written by his (then) six-year-old daughter, ranks up there as a Burnett classic. (It's also an amazing video.) "The Strange Case of Frank Cash..." is a wonderful story but works only for the first few listens. The rest is, it pains me to write, sort of generic. You know there's a genius behind it all but it sounds like he's trying to make a pop album. Though I heartily recommend all his other efforts, this one is just for the die-hards.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Burnett is a musical genius (but this isn't his best album)
6 Oct 2008
Format:Audio CD
T-Bone Burnett is a musical genius and everything he does is worth exploring. However, this album is probably not the best place to start if you are new to his music.
I'd suggest Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett as a place to start and then expand out from there.
I'd suggest Twenty Twenty - The Essential T Bone Burnett as a place to start and then expand out from there.
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