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Songs for a Blue Guitar [Import]

~ Red House Painters
5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Audio CD (23 Jul 1996)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: Island
  • ASIN: B000001EJ4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,252 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Have You Forgotten
2. Song for a Blue Guitar
3. Make Like Paper
4. Priest Alley Song
5. Trailways
6. I Feel the Rain Fall
7. Long Distance Runaround
8. All Mixed Up
9. Revelation Big Sur
10. Silly Love Songs
11. Another Song for a Blue Guitar

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Amazon.co.uk Review
At first glance, Songs for a Blue Guitar appears much like previous Red House Painters albums, meandering and largely self-indulgent. Eight of the album's 11 songs stray over the five-minute mark (with two more than twice that length), and there are the covers of Yes's "Long Distance Runaround", Ric Ocasek's "All Mixed Up", and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs". Kozelek may have strange taste when it comes to picking out covers ("Silly Love Songs"?), but on this album he's also showing a commitment and sense of deliberate purpose that hasn't always been evident. Even in the album's centrepiece, the more than 12-minute long "Make Like Paper" that contains a guitar solo that supposedly is responsible for the Painters' separation from record label 4AD, there's not a false move. The song unfolds gently, revealing more facets of itself than the spare instrumentation would seem to allow, though the guitar's absolutely delicious Neil Young/Robert Quine/Richard Lloyd crunch doesn't hurt, either. That crunch shows up again in "Long Distance Runaround" and "Silly Love Songs", but the rest of the album is built around a gently arresting acoustic guitar that mirrors the soft-voiced Kozelek. --Randy Silver

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars songs for a sad day, 5 Sep 2002
This review is from: Songs for a Blue Guitar (Audio CD)
the red house painters don't embrace joy very well. these collection of tracks seem to inspire melancholy and pain but they are deeply affecting non the less. an eclectic mixture of blues, complaint rock and mark kozelek's sour voice, songs for a blue guitar is most succesful in its cover version - have you forgotten and all mixed up. both songs leave me drained and elated and oddly moved... much like the album itself and the emotions it evokes.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must have RHP album, 19 Jan 2006
By John C "jwc1" (Newark - England) - See all my reviews
Being a fairly new convert to the RHP, my first RHP album was Ocean Beach, and it remains my favourite - perhaps for that reason. Songs for a Blue Guitar was a more recent acquisition – I’ve only had it about two years... and it’s still growing on me.

I love the haunting nature of much of Mark Kozeleks work, the way he can make you pine for something elusive or unknown. Many of his songs are simultaneously sad and yet uplifting. It’s the quality and tone of his voice I guess – and he does a great job of getting this across on this album. For me, the key tracks are Have You Forgotten, Songs for a Blue Guitar, All Mixed Up, Revelation Big Sur, Silly Love Songs, and Another Song for a Blue Guitar. Make Like Paper is obviously a favourite for many also (based on how the crowd reacted at the Islington gig in June 2005).

Overall, I guess I rate this album nearly as highly as Ocean Beach - and it's up there next to the Sun Kil Moon (Ghosts of the Great Highway).

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